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.

There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'