To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.