The Bible: its inspiration, authority, and sufficiency; reading, studying, and meditating on Scripture; the word of God.
- Law-Gospel Exegesis J. Ligon Duncan
Law-gospel is a wonderful theological category. It’s lousy exegesis. If every command that you find you put in the category of law, and every promise you put in the …
- Quiet, Peaceful, and Godly Lives R. Scott Clark
There aren’t many books being written about the seven steps to living quiet, peaceful, and godly lives, and yet that’s the explicit, unequivocal teaching of the word of …
- Contentious Spirit John Frame
Scripture often condemns a “contentious” spirit (Prov. 13:10, 18:6, 26:21, Hab. 1:3, 1 Cor. 1:11, 11:16, Tit. 3:9) and commends “gentleness” (2 Cor. 10:1, Gal. 5:22, 1 …
- Babbling Fool Proverbs 10:8
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
- What do you think about when you are in bed? John Owen
What do you think about when you are in bed, either settling down to sleep or waking up? There are those who ‘work out evil on their beds’! (Mic. 2:1). And there are …
- On James 3:1 Alec Moyter
Peter, recognizing that Christens long for a fulfilled experience, a good life, a rich blessing from God, commands any who ‘would love life and see good days’ to ‘keep …
- Newton on Promises in Affliction John Newton
The far greater part of the promises in Scripture are made and suited to a state of affliction; and though we may believe they are true, we cannot so well know their …
- The Bible instruction of early youth Walter Moore
The Bible instruction of early youth affect the character all through life. You were the means of making me a preacher…
- Malapert Discussions John Newton
What must the holy angels, who, with holy admiration, contemplate the wisdom and glory of God displayed in the gospel; what must they think of the arrogance of sinful …
- Be Scripture Men Thomas Watson
If the Scripture be of divine inspiration, then be exhorted, to study the Scripture. It is a copy of God’s will. Be Scripture-men, Bible-Christians.
- Our Chief Ambition Thomas Watson
Oh let this be the thing we are chiefly ambitious of, the enjoyment of God in his ordinances!
- The Second Most Important Book for Children Joel Beeke
Besides the Bible, your lives are the most important book your children will ever read. In the book of your life, they will see how important your views on God are, …
- The Nature of Inspiration Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
When we think of God the Lord giving by His Spirit a body of authoritative Scriptures to His people, we must remember that He is the God of providence and of grace as …
- Protestants Appeal to Authority Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture.
- Religion of the Bible Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
The religion of the Bible thus announces itself, not as the product of men’s search after God, if haply they may feel after Him and find Him, but as the creation in men …
- Chew the Cud Richard Baxter
Chew the cud, and call up all when you come home in secret, by meditation preach it over yourselves. If it were coldly delivered by the preacher, do you consider the …
- Singles in the Service of God Richard Baxter
O that single persons knew (for the most part) the preciousness of their leisure, and how free they are to attend the service of God, and learn his Word, in comparison of …
- Vos on the Importance of Biblical Historicity Geerhardus Vos
But, if according to the Bible [the patriarchs] are real actors of the drama of redemption, the actual beginning of the people of God, the first embodiment of objective …
- Unpractical Theology? Edmund Clowney
Some may scorn the comfort and triumph of [1 Peter] as unpractical theology. His answers are answers of faith. But Peter knows that his witness is true, that Jesus Christ …
- Serious Meditation on Truth Thomas Brooks
Remember, it is not a hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bees …
- Newton’s Childhood John Newton
When I was four years old, I could… repeat the answers to the questions in the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, with the Scripture proofs; and all Isaac Watts’ smaller …
- The Old Testament Story G.K. Beale
The Old Testament is the story of God, who progressively reestablishes his new-creational kingdom out of chaos over a sinful people by his word and Spirit through …
- The Old Testament Revelation of the Messiah Geerhardus Vos
Old Testament Revelation approaches the concept of a personal Messiah very gradually. It sufficed for fallen man to know that through His divine power and grace God would …
- The Rose and the Lily John Owen
The Lord Christ is, in the Scripture, compared to all things of eminency in the whole creation. He is in the heavens the sun, and the bright morning star; as the lion …
- News of a Better World John Newton
Blessed by God for the news of a better world, where there will be no sin, change, nor defect for ever. And let us praise him, likewise, that He has appointed means of …
- God Has Spoken Herman Bavinck
A theologian’s confidence comes from the conviction: God has spoken.
- The Church Under the Cross Herman Bavinck
The Revelation of John is nevertheless primarily a book of consolation for ’the church under the cross’ of his time, to urge it to persevere in the struggle and to …
- Psalm 103 Charles Spurgeon
There is too much in [Psalm 103], for a thousand pens to write, it is one of those all-comprehending Scriptures which is a Bible in itself, and it might alone almost …
- Bavinck on Elihim Herman Bavinck
Elohim is not presented in Genesis 1 as a cosmic sculptor who uses preexisting material to produce a work of art, but as One who merely by speaking, by uttering a word of …
- Bavinck on Science and Scripture Herman Bavinck
Human scientific research cannot become an independent third-party arbitrator deciding what parts of Scripture, if any, are reliable and to be accepted. Those who make …
- Commandments not Burdensome John the Evangelist
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
- Love the Father has Given Us John the Evangelist
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
- Flavel on Providence John Flavel
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
- Fesko on Baptism and the Red Sea John Fesko
According to Paul, baptism foreshadowed in Israel’s Red Sea crossing) is not a miscellaneous cleansing rite or a general sign of initiation, but is that which brings …
- Calvin on Doctrine and Life John Calvin
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but it is received only …
- The History of Man Charles Spurgeon
The grass lives, grows, flowers, falls beneath the scythe, dries up, and is removed from the field: read this sentence over again, and you will find it the history of …