At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

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

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.