If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean you have no ideas of God, but it will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
"NEVER LET US SPEAK OF THE DOOM OF THE WICKED HARSHLY, FLIPPANTLY, OR WITHOUT HOLY GRIEF: THE LOSS OF HEAVEN AND THE ENDURANCE OF HELL MUST ALWAYS BE THEMES FOR TEARS."
C. H. SPURGEON
C. H. SPURGEON
The Cross is not a sign of our great worth but of our great depravity that we were so evil that the only way we could be saved is by God's Son being crushed under the force of the wrath that was due us. Paul Washer
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James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
We deny the causation but embrace the effectual, meaning we believe that works are not the cause of justification but rather works are the effect of justification.
God justifies His people in His sight by faith alone. Justification by works is for men to see that we have been declared righteous by God. Mike Choate
We deny the causation but embrace the effectual, meaning we believe that works are not the cause of justification but rather works are the effect of justification.
God justifies His people in His sight by faith alone. Justification by works is for men to see that we have been declared righteous by God. Mike Choate
"The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!--
My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
Horatio G. Spafford 1873
My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
Horatio G. Spafford 1873
Act 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Justification is not merely forgiveness ("just-as-if-I'd-never-sinned"), but God's crediting us with Christ's fulfillment of the law.
Man is a sinner. He's a sinner by birth, by nature, by choice, by practice, and by habit. Adrian Rogers
God does not answer our prayers as we pray them but rather he answers them as if we would pray them if we were wiser.
John Calvin
John Calvin
A true defense of the Christian faith has never been more needed than now, but an attempt to rescue Christianity from its dependence upon Scripture is doomed to disaster.
Al Mohler
Al Mohler
We are not sinners because we sin;
we sin because we are sinners.
we sin because we are sinners.
The form, the purpose, the spirit of baptism - these are the three thoughts which need to be emphasized. They are inseparable except for emphasis.
J. M. Frost 1899
J. M. Frost 1899