T. S. Sinclair

“Happy were it, if puzzled & perplexed Christians would turn their eyes from the defects that are in their obedience, to the fullness and completeness of Christ’s obedience; and see themselves complete in Him, when most lame and defective in themselves.” —John Flavel, Works 1.59

"What is the ground of the Christian’s assurance? It is the work of Jesus for us - His life, His death, His resurrection and His intercession." @AKofiCup acupofkofi.substack.com/p/soabout-the-…

"The incarnation was not the relocation, an act of moving to a new place, by the Word from heaven to earth. It was the assumption, the taking and uniting to himself, of a created human nature by the eternal Son of the eternal Father." – @richbarcellos founders.org/articles/very-…

Discipleship isn’t just information transfer. First and foremost ⬇️ ✳️ It is helping people walk in an intimate relationship with Jesus ✳️ then guiding them in the overflow of obedience. Full podcast with @MattSmethurst ⬇️ t.mtrbio.com/new-churches

"Union with Christ is the foundation for all of your obedience to God. All of your good works as a Christian flow out of your union with Christ. All of your sincere obedience to the law is the fruit of your union with Christ.” - Walter Marshall

Many young people hesitate to commit — always wondering if something better is coming next. But discipleship calls for something different: not endless options, but faithful commitment to godly endeavors.

Charles Bridges on preaching: “It takes as much reflection to know what is not to be put into a sermon as what is. It is not how much can be said but what can best be said. Let us not aim at exhausting ourselves on every point of our subject.”

My advice to pastors who want to preach better is quit reading about preaching and start studying your God. When you are gripped by an infinitely compelling Subject, your sermons will be more compelling too.

The Law/Gospel distinction is “a Protestant doctrine.” @thepactum podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

“Taken by itself the covenant of grace is pure grace, and nothing else, and excludes all works. It gives what it demands, and fulfills what it prescribes. The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift.” — Herman Bavinck

“Wherefore when this Word of God is now preached in the church by preachers lawfully called, we believe that the very Word of God is proclaimed, and received by the faithful; and that neither any other Word of God is to be invented nor is to be expected from heaven: and that now the Word itself which is preached is to be regarded, not the minister that preaches; for even if he be evil and a sinner, nevertheless the Word of God remains still true and good.” - Second Helvetic Confession

“Your relationship to that law has changed.” @mike_grimes @PatAbendroth @thepactum podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the "It is finished!" of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen. — Horatius Bonar

Has it yet gripped you that when God looks at you today He sees you clothed in the perfect, sinless obedience of His Son?

Chad Van Dixhoorn: “If you want a ministry that will be forgotten in the future become an expert on all the controversies of the present and preach them each week.” #coramdeopascon

Carl Trueman (in Crisis of Confidence) argues that Paul presents to Timothy the qualification to teach, not to be a teacher. That sounds small, but it’s not, because the teacher’s task is to draw attention to what is taught, not to himself. That means this qualification isn’t about presence or personality, but about understanding doctrine and articulating it clearly.

“There is only one genuine cure for legalism. It is the same medicine the gospel prescribes for antinomianism: understanding and tasting union with Jesus Christ Himself.” learn.ligonier.org/articles/whole…

At this year’s Shepherds’ Conference, which was devoted to celebrating the biblical convictions of John MacArthur, I took the time to defend a doctrine that was close to Pastor John’s heart and an emphasis of his faithful expository preaching ministry: the imputation of the active obedience of Christ. Somewhat inexplicably, this cornerstone of the Gospel, which is such welcome Good News to sinners sensible of their sin, is often opposed—both by enemies of the Gospel as well as by misguided believers. And so it stands in need of vindication. Jesus our Substitute has died for our sins and lived for our righteousness. He has fully paid the penalty of our sins by shedding His precious blood on the cross, and He fully obeyed every demand that God’s law required of sinners— so that, by the imputation of our disobedience to Christ, the record of our sins is wiped clean, and by the imputation of Christ’s obedience to us, all that God requires of man stands accomplished. Our penalty is paid by His substitutionary death, and the personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience to God’s law, which we have failed to render, is rendered on our account by His substitutionary life. Here’s the link to the seminar, along with a handout to help follow along. I pray it’s a blessing. gracechurch.org/sermons/24739

“No amount of sanctification will add to your justification.” -Sinclair Ferguson

"Legalism is simply separating the law of God from the person of God. Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of God as the giver of his law... The simplest way to think of antinomianism is that it denies the role of the law in the Christian life. At root then antinomianism separates God’s law from God’s person, and grace from the union with Christ in which the law is written in the heart. Antinomianism and legalism are not so much antithetical to each other as they are both antithetical to grace. This is why Scripture never prescribes one as the antidote for the other. Rather grace, God’s grace in Christ in our union with Christ, is the antidote to both." —Sinclair Ferguson

Through Christ's perfect righteousness, He has opened the floodgates of God’s infinite love and favor toward us.