Reformed Study

John MacArthur on Why God Allows so Much Suffering And Evil?

2013-07-30T19:52:00.002-07:00

R.C. Sproul on God's Sovereignty

2013-07-27T02:32:00.001-07:00

R.C. Sproul on Miracles

2013-03-11T00:30:00.000-07:00

Rather than proving the existence of God, the biblical miracles serve to authenticate the messenger sent from God.

There are people in the world who claim to perform miracles, but they are theological charlatans of the worst kind. If they really are doing miracles, their writings ought to be included in the New Testament, because their miracles mean that God is authenticating them as agents of revelation.

Charles Spurgeon on Sola Gratia - Grace Alone

2013-03-10T19:21:00.001-07:00

If there is to be in our celestial garment but one stitch of our own making we are all of us lost.

J.C. Ryle on Truth

2013-03-10T19:11:00.000-07:00

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

R.C. Sproul on The Fallen Man

2012-11-12T22:54:00.000-08:00

Fallen man does not come to the Word of God because he has no taste for the things of God. By nature the things of God are foreign to him. He doesn't want God in his thinking. He refuses to have anything to do with Him. He has no desire for the things of God. By nature his desires are only wicked continually. That's why God has to change the disposition of a person's heart before he will ever respond to the Word of Christ. The Spirit has to set him free.

Jonathan Edwards on Being Humble

2012-02-21T00:02:00.000-08:00

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

Jonathan Edwards on Delighting in God

2012-02-20T14:22:00.002-08:00

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

John Calvin on Our Acceptance

2012-02-08T00:36:00.000-08:00

It is the gospel that continues to remind us that our day-to-day acceptance with the Father is not based on what we do for God but upon what Christ did for us.

Charles Spurgeon on True Converts

2011-12-26T00:01:00.000-08:00

A man's converts are always a disgrace to him. It is only those that God converts that will last. If they are converted by man they can be unconverted by man.

Charles Spurgeon on Being Content

2011-12-25T10:11:00.000-08:00

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Jonathan Edwards on The Purpose of Life

2011-12-07T00:00:00.000-08:00

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

John MacArthur on Regeneration

2011-12-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

‎The person who demonstrates no desire for the things of God and has no inclination to avoid sin or passion to please God is not indwelt by the Holy Spirit and thus does not belong to Christ.

Charles Spurgeon on Evangelism

2011-12-05T00:00:00.000-08:00

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will
return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself."

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there was might going forth with the word of Jesus which makes men willing, and which turns them from the error of their ways by the mighty, overwhelming, constraining force of divine influence, I should cease to glory in the cross of Christ.

R.C. Sproul on Christian Life

2011-12-04T00:00:00.000-08:00

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain n the streets.

Charles Spurgeon on Irresistable Grace

2011-12-03T00:00:00.000-08:00

I take it that the highest proof of Christ’s power is not that he offers salvation, not that he bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, he has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

Paul Washer on Repentance

2011-12-02T00:00:00.001-08:00

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.

Charles Spurgeon on Election

2011-12-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

‎I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

John Newton on Inner Peace

2011-11-30T00:00:00.000-08:00

When my worldly concerns have been most thorny and discouraging, I have once and again felt the most of that peace which the world can neither give nor take away.

J.C. Ryle on Prayer

2011-11-29T12:46:00.001-08:00

As a father loves the first stammering efforts of his child to speak, so the Lord loves the poor feeble petitions of His people.

Charles Spurgeon On Free Will

2011-11-24T02:31:00.001-08:00

I have often heard of free will, but I have never seen it! I have met with will and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in blessed bonds of Grace.

John Calvin on Self-Confidence

2011-11-14T21:21:00.001-08:00

Nothing pleases man more than the sort of alluring talk that tickles the pride that itches his very marrow. But however great such commendation of human excellence is . . . it so deceives as to drive those who assent to it into utter ruin. . .

Here, then, is what God’s truth requires us to seek in examining ourselves: it requires the kind of knowledge that will strip us of all confidence in our own ability, deprive us of all occasion for boasting, and lead us to submission. We ought to keep this rule if we wish to reach the true goal of both wisdom and action.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2011-08-12T08:51:00.001-07:00

When God calls a man, He bids him come and die.

J.C. Ryle

2011-08-12T08:50:00.001-07:00

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Charles Spurgeon

2011-08-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

O dear friend, when thy grief presses thee to the very dust, worship there.