“We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“We are not called to live the gospel but to believe the gospel and to follow the law in view of God’s… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The gospel is not something you can just tack on to another worldview. On the contrary, it makes you rethink everything from… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“When people call for “deeds, not creeds,” asking, “What Would Jesus Do?” without much interest in the query, “What has Jesus done?”… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evangelical David Gibson calls ‘the… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“If the eternal Son could become fully human without sin (Heb 4:15), then surely God can communicate his truth through thoroughly human… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The gospel isn’t just enough to justify the ungodly; it’s enough to regenerate and sanctify the ungodly. However, only because (in the… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Scriptures does not depend on the decision of the church or the individual to validate it. To paraphrase… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“An implication of God’s independence from the world is that he is who he is eternally and will always be. All of… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Many Christians assume that we can just experience God in a personal relationship apart from doctrine, but that’s impossible. You cannot experience… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“As we discussed earlier, the gospel is “folly to Gentiles” (1Co 1:23) not only because of its message (namely, a crucified Messiah… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Jesus was not revolutionary because he said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius,… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Christ is ubiquitous in this subculture, but more as an adjective (Christian) than as a proper name. While we swim in a… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“We do not have even 1 percent of that kind of power. Rather, we have 100 percent of the natural freedom that… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“True faith calls on the name of Jesus for salvation from death, hell, sin, and Satan. Therefore, sound theology has its source… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Many Christians assume that we can just experience God in a personal relationship apart from doctrine, but that’s impossible. You cannot experience… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Throughout God’s acts revealed in history, from creation to the exodus to the exile to redemption and on into the consummation, we… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“I do not believe the gospel because I believe in God; rather, I believe in God because of the gospel.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Only when we start with the gospel — the most controversial point of Christian faith — are we ready to talk about… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“In the doctrine of the Trinity,” wrote Herman Bavinck, “beats the heart of the whole revelation of God for the redemption of… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“the gospel is good news for losers, that in fact we are all losers if we measure ourselves by God’s interpretation of… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Finally, Lutheran and Reformed traditions distinguish (without separating) three uses of the law: the first (pedagogical), to expose our guilt and corruption,… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“In other words, the canon is inspired; the community is illumined to understand, embrace, interpret, and obey it. Jesus taught that there… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“All of our faith and practice arise out of the drama of Scripture, the “big story” that traces the plot of history… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The flesh of Christ is like a rich and inexhaustible fountain that pours into us the life springing forth from the Godhead into itself.… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“All of the Reformers agreed among themselves and with Rome on the point that the Supper lies at the heart of the person of… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“As the pretensions of modernity are unmasked today, it is a good time for us to recover our nerve, “always being prepared to make… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“To study theology involves entering into a long, ongoing conversation, one that we did not begin. Others have been talking about God long before… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“True faith calls on the name of Jesus for salvation from death, hell, sin, and Satan. Therefore, sound theology has its source in a… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Jerome does not condemn singing absolutely, but he corrects those who sing theatrically, or who sing not in order to arouse devotion but to… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Calvin showed little patience toward those—especially leaders in the church—who displayed either explicitly or implicitly that they did not take God’s Word seriously. The… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“In short, Calvin has been given too much blame by critics and too much credit by fans. His real genius is to be found… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Trials are the workshop of a Father, not the threats of a Judge. The arrow that looks as if it were targeting our heart… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The orthodox hold the mean between these extremes, maintaining that the providence of God is so occupied about sin as neither idly to permit… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin’s ecclesiology today: that the church is not something… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
![“As the pretensions of modernity are unmasked today, it is a good time for us to recover our nerve, “always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks [us] for a reason for the hope that is in [us]” (1Pe 3:15). By breaking into our history, sharing our history, and transforming that…” quote by Michael S. Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d20/michael-s-horton-7082_history_as-the-pretensions-of-modernity-are-unma_107863.jpg)
