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Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination.

God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.

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Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish theologian known in Reformed Christian circles for his teaching, writing, and editorial work. He has been Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary since 2017, commuting from Scotland, where he was an assistant minister at St. Peter's Free Church of Scotland, Dundee. He is currently a preaching associate at Trinity Church, Aberdeen

So we are Ephesians 2:15–16 Christians: the ceremonial law is fulfilled. We are Colossians 2:14–17 Christians: the civil law distinguishing Jew and Gentile is fulfilled. And we are Romans 8:3–4 Christ...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

So we are Ephesians 2:15–16 Christians: the ceremonial law is fulfilled. We are Colossians 2:14–17 Christians: the civil law distinguishing Jew and Gentile is fulfilled. And we are Romans 8:3–4 Christ...

Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace. . . . By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense of the odiousness of sin, not only of its danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins,...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace. . . . By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense of the odiousness of sin, not only of its danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins,...

Growth in grace sometimes depends on the relatively mundane expedient of knowing ourselves well enough to recognise what are the points of lowest resistance in our lives.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Growth in grace sometimes depends on the relatively mundane expedient of knowing ourselves well enough to recognise what are the points of lowest resistance in our lives.

The ongoing function of God’s law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide for Christian living. Thus, according to the Confession of Faith: True believers be not under...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

The ongoing function of God’s law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide for Christian living. Thus, according to the Confession of Faith: True believers be not under...

Seeing human need with perfect clarity, Jesus felt it with unparalleled intensity.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Seeing human need with perfect clarity, Jesus felt it with unparalleled intensity.

Yes, people will tell us they believe in a God of love. But they are self-deceived, and their lives reveal it. They neither love Him with heart, soul, mind, and strength in return, nor do they worship...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Yes, people will tell us they believe in a God of love. But they are self-deceived, and their lives reveal it. They neither love Him with heart, soul, mind, and strength in return, nor do they worship...

To become a Christian believer is to be brought into a reality far grander than anything we could ever have imagined. It means communion with the triune God.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

To become a Christian believer is to be brought into a reality far grander than anything we could ever have imagined. It means communion with the triune God.

The human heart wrote Calvin, has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

The human heart wrote Calvin, has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

The genius of the divine way of salvation by faith is that in it we are personally, actively united to Jesus Christ, but in a way that contributes nothing to His work. Faith is by definition noncontri...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

The genius of the divine way of salvation by faith is that in it we are personally, actively united to Jesus Christ, but in a way that contributes nothing to His work. Faith is by definition noncontri...

You cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the worl...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

You cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the worl...

Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life.

Pharisees lived according to the strictest party of . . . religion.3 The name itself is probably derived from the root to separate. Pharisaism was essentially a conservative holiness movement. So

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Pharisees lived according to the strictest party of . . . religion.3 The name itself is probably derived from the root to separate. Pharisaism was essentially a conservative holiness movement. So

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.

The fruit of the Spirit is love. But love is the most costly of fruits.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

The fruit of the Spirit is love. But love is the most costly of fruits.

And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I c...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I c...

Whatever form, however, Antinomianism may assume, it springs from legalism. None rush into the one extreme but those who have been in the other.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Whatever form, however, Antinomianism may assume, it springs from legalism. None rush into the one extreme but those who have been in the other.

Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes it...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes it...

Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the instrument, by which we are united to Christ, in whom our justification, our right-wising with God, has been accomplish...

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the instrument, by which we are united to Christ, in whom our justification, our right-wising with God, has been accomplish...