The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.