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

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

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.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.