The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are ‘justified by death’ and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God’s sovereign providence.
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
God doesn’t need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.