It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!

Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.

The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.