The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

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.