The zealous person who promises us a life free from suffering has found his message from a source other than Scripture.
The study of theology is simply the study of the character of God, whose crowning virtue is love. Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the...
The simple answer is that there is something in the creature that does not reside in the Creator—sin. That does not mean that the creature has something greater than the Creator; rather, the creature...
The promise of God is not that He will never give us more weight than we want to carry. The promise of God is that He will never put more on us than we can bear.
The medical community has the greatest financial vested interest in abortion, which has become at least a billion-dollar business.
The failures of Judas, of Peter, and of their fellow disciples should cause us to fall to our knees in surrender, asking Christ to cause us to stand. Only by His power will we remain loyal to Him.
The fact that people become emotional about the abortion issue has a rational basis. The emotion is not arbitrary or capricious. The emotion is rooted in the deep human consciousness of the sanctity o...
The doctrine of inspiration declares that God enabled the human writers of Scripture to be agents of divine revelation, so that what they wrote was not only their writing but in a higher sense the ver...
The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel.
The central issue of Christianity is the issue of justification. It faces the dilemma squarely. The only possible way for an unjust person to stand in the presence of a just and holy God is to be just...
The body of Christ is a group of people who live daily in the context of forgiveness.
The Son of GodThe New Testament recounts few instances when God was heard speaking from heaven. When He did, it was normallyto announce something startling. God was zealous to announce that Jesus Chri...
The God of Christianity is sovereign, wise, righteous, and ultimately concerned with justice. Not only is God concerned with justice, He assumes the role of judge over us. It is axiomatic to Christian...
The English word ethic or ethics comes from the Greek word ethos. The word morals or morality comes from the word mores. The difference is that the ethos of a society or culture deals with its foundat...
The Council of Chalcedon produced the following statement, known as the Chalcedonian Creed: Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son,...
The Apostle Paul frequently admonishes and instructs Christians not to be quarrelsome, divisive, or combative. He extols the virtues of patience, charity, and tolerance. Yet when it came to the gospel...
Sproul. These were discussed in a number of ways by groups of delegates from the Advisory Board and in various partial and plenary sessions at the summit. Furthermore, written comments were solicited...
Sproul is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, an international multimedia ministry based in Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew...
So the very beginning of godliness, the very beginning of transformation in our lives and in our society, begins with our posture before the character of God.'The
Sin is a revolutionary act in which the sinner seeks to depose God from Histhrone. Sin is a presumption of supreme arrogance in that the creature vaunts his own wisdom above that of the Creator, chall...