westminster larger catechism Q. 4. How does it appear that the Scriptures are the word of God? A. The scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very word of God.

Job spoke the truth about a man’s life when he said “seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass” (Job 14:5). Until that day arrives which God has established, every man is immortal.

"Without the regenerating grace of the Holy Spirit, we cannot know God as our heavenly father." David Gibson

After describing false gods as speechless, blind, deaf, immobile, and powerless, Psalm 115 says that “those who make them will become like them, / everyone who trusts in them” (115:8).

we have the politicians we deserve.

Martin Bucher writing to John Calvin in October 1542 about Peter Martyr Vermigli

The greatest thing God could do for us is to give us a Savior.

“Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven” (Psalm 85:11). Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so that He might exist also in the bosom of a mother. Truth, holding the world in place, has sprung from the earth so that He might be carried in the hands of a woman. Truth, incorruptibly nourishing the happiness of the angels, has sprung from the earth in order to be fed by human milk. Truth, whom the heavens cannot contain, has sprung from the earth so that He might be placed in a manger. (Augustine)