“The Christian family doesn't just think theologically on Sundays; it does theology from Sunday to Sunday.”
— Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens🔗
“we Westerners so emphasize a merely legal understanding of the death of Christ for our salvation that we overlook material in the New Testament that doesn’t fit that model.”
— Kelly Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering🔗
“The Christian...lives with his heavenly destiny ever in full view. His outlook is not bounded by the present life and the present world. He sees that which is and that which is to come in their true proportions and in their proper perspective. The centre of gravity of his consciousness lies not in the present but in the future. Hope, not possession, is that which gives tone and colour to his life.”
“We should not make the mistake of thinking the difference between the Creator and the creature is simply a difference in size. To do so is to assume God can be measured, as if he were merely a bigger version of ourselves. I call this the superhero syndrome. Christians like to think of God as their superhero, like us but with superpowers. But that is a terribly unbiblical portrayal of God’s infinite nature. He is not a God who simply possesses our powers but in endless measure. No, an infinite God transcends our characteristics altogether.”
— Michael Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God🔗
“It is unfortunate that the French delegation was prevented from attending the Synod of Dort. One is left to wonder: If Du Moulin had been allowed to participate in person, would he have been a significant moderating influence on the synod and the canons?”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗
“To believe ourselves in a state of salvation, (however desirable, when grounded on evidence), is far inferior, in its object, to saving faith. The grand object on which faith fixes, is the glory of Christ, and not the happy coidtion we are in”
— Andrew Fuller, The Gospel Worthy Of All Acceptation🔗
“[Jesus] chose twelve apostles to testify...[b]ut what coudl the testimony of twelve poor, though hoenst men, prevail against the confronting suffrage of the world? Wherefore the work of bearing witness to Christ, was committed to him who is above all, and who is able to make his testimony prevalent...Accordingly the apostles plead his concurring testimony--'We are his witnesses--and so also is the Holy Spriit'”
— John Owen, The Holy Spirit: His Gifts and Power🔗