GIVEAWAY It's so important (!) to be part of a church dedicated to doctrine. Reformation Day is almost here. I pray *The Reformation as Renewal* equips you to retrieve your doctrinal roots from the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. LIKE. RETREWEET. Win all these books

“Predestination! Oh, how deeply hid your roots are from the vision of all those who cannot see the Primal Cause entire! You men on earth, be slow to judge, for even we who see God face to face still do not know the list of His elect…”. — Dante, Paradisio XX 130-135

“It is impossible for God to use a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.” —AW Tozer

“Sin is a blind, anti-God, egocentric energy in the fallen human spiritual system, ever fomenting self-centered and self-deceiving desires, ambitions, purposes, plans, attitudes, and behaviors.” — J.I. Packer

“When a person has so imagined grace and mercy, so as to be able to swallow a daily diet of sin without painful heartburn, that person has turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, and become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” — John Owen

I highly recommend this Advent to Epiphany devotional: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” by Jonathan Gibson.

Awake, you who lie in the dust, awake and give praise. Behold, the Lord comes with salvation…For He Himself is salvation, He is unction, He is glory, as it is written, “A wise son is the glory of his father.” —Bernard of Clairvaux

"Modernism cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman" — Abraham Kuyper (1902) #kuypertheprophet

Re-upping my Ad Fontes review of Robert Covolo's "Fashion Theology" in honor of NYC Fashion Week. Never forget—the first fashion critics were theologians! adfontesjournal.com/church-history…

May the One who formed us re-form us. May the One who created us re-create us. May the One who constructed us re-construct us.” — Augustine

“Heaven would call—and it encircles—you; it let’s you see its never-ending beauties; and yet your eyes would only see the ground; thus, He who sees all things would strike you down.”—Dante

“Let me know you, O you who know me; then shall I know even as I am known.” — Augustine

“He did not redeem us from Satan‘s power in order that we each might go free to be our own master, but so that we might pass from the service of Satan into the service of Christ. The service to Christ is not a burden to us, but our joy and privilege, and we truly experience it as

“Technology gives us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”—Turkle

“Christ is exactly suited to all that I am in my sin and misery and to all that I should aspire to by God’s grace. Christ fits in perfectly to the totality of our situation in its sin, guilt, misery, and ill-desert.”—John Murray

“How would he have called us if he had not been crucified? For only on the cross does one die with hands stretched out.” —Athanasius

Christ is Risen!

“Let me know you, O you who know me; then shall I know even as I am known.” — Augustine