R.C. Sproul

Then God stooped to earth and carefully fashioned a piece of clay. He lifted it gently to His lips and breathed into it. The clay began to move. It began to think. It began to feel. It began to worship. It was alive and…

This is the essence of idolatry: replacing the reality with a counterfeit.

One can go through theexternal motions of a profession but not truly be in possession of the inward reality of salvation.

The purpose of theology is not to tickle our intellects but to instruct us in the ways of God, so that we can grow up into maturity and fullness of obedience to Him. That is why we engage in theology.

We have all heard evangelists quote from Revelation: I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with Me. Usually the evangelist applies this…

We must add that there is no real conflict between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. It was the Old Testament God whom Christ called Father. It was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who so…

cuando Dios ordena algo, su prop'sito es totalmente bueno.

We do not 'find' God as a result of our search for him. We are found by him. The search for God does not end in conversion; it begins at conversion. It is the converted person who genuinely and sincerely seeks after God.…

Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted.

That God in some sense foreordains whatever comes to pass is a necessary result of his sovereignty. In itself it does not plead for Calvinism. It only declares that God is absolutely sovereign over his creation. God can…

Foundational thinking cares about the difference between truth and falsehood because it cares about good and evil.

The ancient maxim still applies: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' To any serious thinker, and especially to the professing Christian, an unexamined life is not an option.

Philosophy was born in the ancient quest for ultimate reality, the reality that transcends the proximate and commonplace and that defines and explains the data of everyday experience.

When one is immersed in a Christian subculture that puts a great deal of stress on making decisions, responding to altar calls, and praying the sinner's prayer, it is easy to miss this important point'making a decision t…

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than…

Etica este o ?tiin?a normativa care cauta sa descopere fundamentele esen?iale care descriu obliga?iile, sau ce trebuie sa faca omul. Ea are de-a face 'n primul r'nd cu lucruri imperative ?i cu premisele filozofice pe car…

Gradul de libertate este determinat de nivelul de putere, autoritate ?i responsabilitate ce se gase?te la nivelul fiecareia.

Nu exista nicio cale prin care sa putem sa 'n?elegem cu adevarat ce 'nseamna sa fim oameni p'na c'nd nu 'n?elegem mai 'nainte caracterul lui Dumnezeu.

Any time we discuss a historical event, we review the facts, and sometimes we argue about what really took place, what was said, what was observed. However, once we agree on the facts (or agree to disagree), we are still…

Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as interesting as possible. They want to persuade, admonish, and exhort, yet nothing happens as a re…

In our society cultural analysts speak of the 'politics of envy,' where politicians, for their own interests, stir up strife among people to create a kind of class warfare. The poor are set against the rich, employees ag…

But while Paul is silent about the question of future choices in verse 11, he does not remain so. In verse 16 he makes it clear: 'So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.' This…

The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.

That God allows a human being to treat me unjustly is just of God. While I may complain to God about the human, horizontal injustice I have suffered, I cannot rise up and accuse God of committing a vertical injustice by…

The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation. He does not leave us s…

Death often frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortable when another's de…

what better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

But we still must tremble before our God. He is still holy. Our trembling is the tremor of awe and veneration, not the trembling of the coward or the pagan frightened by the rustling of a leaf. Luther explained it this w…

When we call things holy when they are not holy, we commit the sin of idolatry. We give to common things the respect, awe, worship, and adoration that belong only to God. To worship the creature instead of the Creator is…

To my great distress, I sometimes hear people say, in their zeal for fervency and efficacy in prayer, that we should never qualify ourprayer requests with the words if it be Your will. Some will even say that to attach t…

Chance is a perfectly good word to describe mathematic possibilities, but it is only a word. It is not an entity. Chance is nothing. It has no power because it has no being; therefore, it can exercise no influence over a…

Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.

If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes from the Latin word votum, which means will. When I cast my vote, I express my will. Indeed, if my vote is decisive…

Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the r…

If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.

God delights to hear the prayers of His people when they individually ask, Lord, what do you want me to do? The Christian pursues God, looking for His marching orders, seeking to know what course of actionis pleasing to…

Actually, one of the most dangerous things we can do as Christians is to determine our theology by our experience, because no one's experience is normative for the Christian life. We have to determine our theology from t…

a knowledge of the invisible God is revealed to us through that which is visible. The creation itself screams out the reality of the Creator.

faith is central to the motivation of the human heart to live in a way that honors God.

Prayer is one of the most important means of grace that we have to strengthen our faith. Prayer is not for God's benefit. We don't pray to give Him information that otherwise He would not have. We don't pray to give God…

Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in His suffering.

If God ceased to exist, the universe would perish with Him, because God not only has created everything, He sustains everything. We are dependent on Him, not only for our origin, but also for our continuing existence.

To live in coram Deo is to live in the presence of God, being ruled by His authority for the glory of His name.

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.

It distresses me somewhat to hear a person say, 'I am a born-again Christian.' What's wrong with such a statement? Well, what other kind of Christian is there? If rebirth is absolutely essential in order to get into the…

Don't ever ask God for justice-you might get it.

If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. The secret to happi…

The Christian formula for the Trinity'God is one essence in three persons'may seem to be contradictory because we are accustomed to seeing one being as one person. We cannot conceive of how one being could be contained i…

Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.

To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they follow 'the prince of…