We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

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.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.