Michael Horton
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Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. Founder of @solamediaorg .
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The unity of the global church hinges on one question: “whom do we worship?”
I am thrilled to announce our 2025 conference in partnership w/
@MattMBarrett
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NEWS! We are launching our first ever CONFERENCE! Join us &
@solamediaorg
on May 1-2, 2025 as we worship our triune God 1700 Years after Nicaea. Recovering orthodoxy today is vital to the unity of the church worldwide. Register: 🧵
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The early Christians were not fed to wild beasts or dipped in wax and set ablaze as lamps in Nero's garden because they thought Jesus was a helpful life coach or role model but because they witnessed to Him as the only Lord and Savior of the world.
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Dear Friends,
On February 7 I was admitted to the hospital with difficulty breathing. At first, they thought it was covid and pneumonia, but after three negative tests, they ran an angiogram and realized a heart valve had “blown apart,” as they put it...
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Dear person who reads theology: If your reading is causing you to look down on other believers, you’re doing it wrong. “It is the goal of good theology to humble us before the triune God of majesty and grace.
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Having just heard about the home going of J. I. Packer, I am filled with mixed emotions: joy for him, sadness for us. I first met him when I was about 15. I can’t calculate how much I owe to him, not only his teaching and writing but his godly example.
#jipacker
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Lisa and I appreciate so much the prayers of the saints through which our Triune God has so generously sustained me. I look forward to being back in the saddle as soon as possible.
In Christ,
Mike Horton
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A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked, it’s a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.
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On the question of whether humanity is good or not, it is important to remember that sin is not essential to human nature. We only became enemies of God and “children of wrath” after falling from our high and royal station.
For some time I have been concerned about the TULIP
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If you don’t invest in the Christian, biblical drama and doctrines, you will be shaped by the drama and doctrines Madison Avenue is selling to you every day that you’re getting from CNN or MSNBC or Fox. They’re going to tell you who you are and it’s not going to be in Christ.
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I am a Christian, not because I think I can walk in Jesus's footsteps, but because He is the only one Who can carry me. I am not the gospel; Jesus Christ alone is the Gospel. His story saves me, not only by bringing me justification but by baptizing me into His resurrection life!
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I am a Christian, not because I think I can walk in Jesus's footsteps, but because He is the only one Who can carry me. I am not the gospel; Jesus Christ alone is the Gospel. His story saves me, not only by bringing me justification but by baptizing me into His resurrection life!
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The theology of the cross produces the sort of eschatology that advocates planting a tree (Luther)—neither escaping nature nor conquering nature, but leading the chorus of nature in groaning for the consummation.
The Christian hope is therefore neither resignation to “the way
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Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
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I'm preaching to the choir when I say this: it's a lot easier to want to be a part of a movement than part of a church in the neighborhood.
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Jesus does not save his sheep from wolves only to leave them to fend for themselves. Join a local church.
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I actually feel a lot better than I have for months in the sense of being able to think and breathe clearly. It will take a while to recover completely, but I am grateful to the Lord not only for extending my life but for many things I have taken for granted...
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"The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands."
— Martin Luther
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I am a Christian, not because I think I can walk in Jesus's footsteps, but because He is the only one Who can carry me. I am not the gospel; Jesus Christ alone is the Gospel. His story saves me, not only by bringing me justification but by baptizing me into His resurrection life!
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"If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
~ C. S. Lewis
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A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked, it’s a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.
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No church can spread the gospel with any degree of integrity or credibility unless it's been visibly changed by the gospel it preaches. ~ John Stott
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Most kings demand the blood of their subjects to expand their empire but this king creates his empire by spilling his own blood.
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Evangelicals are often accused of being so concerned with soteriology that they neglect Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom.
Such criticisms often lump Reformed Christians into those who reduce the gospel only to the forgiveness of sins, even though Reformed theologians have long
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When nations assume a sacred status and mission, they assume a demonic character.
The vicious aspect of lopping off the heads of infidels with the cry, “Christus est dominus!” lies not merely in the violent carnage but, above all, in its blasphemy. “You who boast in the law
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Justification is an act of God's free grace where he pardons & accepts us as righteous because of the imputation of Christ's righteousness
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Biblical leadership is quick to repent of wrongs, slow to accuse others & hungry for reconciliation. Wisdom from above sows seeds of peace.
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Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit.
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Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
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Churches planted by the Apostles were afflicted from the beginning with schism, heresy, and error. We shouldn't expect anything less in our day.
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The Christian confession is not “I believe in going to heaven when I die” but “I believe in the resurrection of the body & life everlasting”
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Blood was backing up into my lungs, so they intubated me and performed open heart surgery soon thereafter. The whole team was fantastic, and they are surprised at how quickly I am recovering...
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"Those who resist criticism, esp. fair criticism, show themselves to be unhealthy people. Unhealthy people, when criticized, tend to spin, manipulate, and regroup. True leaders, on the other hand, confess and repent."
@scottsauls
From Weakness to Strength
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Biblical leadership is quick to repent of wrongs, slow to accuse others & hungry for reconciliation. Wisdom from above sows seeds of peace.
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Many confessional churches seem content to live off of the capital of the past.
But it is not enough to invoke the slogans of the Reformation. We need to recover the fullness of biblical faith and practice in our own time and place.
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What is it about your own miserable works & doings that you think you could please God more than the sacrifice of His own Son? ―Martin Luther
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"Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it." ~ John Stott
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Sociologists of religion rightly underscore that individual autonomy is the main driver of secularization.
If churches focus on engaging their members inwardly with private practices, while failing to call them to engage in its bodily and communal ordinances, they are priming
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The Christian confession is not “I believe in going to heaven when I die” but “I believe in the resurrection of the body & life everlasting”
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Biblical leadership is quick to repent of wrongs, slow to accuse others & hungry for reconciliation. Wisdom from above sows seeds of peace.
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Salvation—redemption and reconciliation—cannot be achieved by our good works, but we are saved for good works. Since God does not need our works, the only place for them to go is out to our neighbors who do need these good works, which the gospel frees us and enables us to do.
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Why isn't it enough to be an ordinary person who lives in an ordinary town with ordinary friends and works an ordinary job?
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Growing up in dispensationalism, I often saw a tendency to flatten biblical prophecy, where all significant end-time events will occur in the future.
However, biblical prophecy exhibits a "telescoping" effect. Many of the messianic Psalms obviously refer to David, and yet he
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I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
~ John Newton
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God’s love is not an anthropomorphism.
Human love is a theomorphism.
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If the whole apparatus of church life is built around youth culture, then we will never grow up.
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We do not need more conferences, and celebrities. We need more churches where the Spirit is immersing sinners into Christ day by day.
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Theology is best done in community and in conversation rather than in lonely isolation.
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"If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
~ C. S. Lewis
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"Gospel" means "good news." It's the word that was used in the Greek world for the herald who runs from the battlefield to announce to the capitol that victory has been won.
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Biblical leadership is quick to repent of wrongs, slow to accuse others and hungry for reconciliation. Wisdom from above sows seeds of peace.
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A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked, it’s a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.
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The only thing that the church can provide to the world that is truly unique is the gospel.
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It's very easy for us to talk about truth in a way that is ugly, in a way that really is self-righteous. A theology of sufficient grace of God in Christ — we can present that gracious message ungraciously. This shouldn't be.
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God does not exist to make sure that we are happy and fulfilled. Rather, we exist to glorify and to enjoy Him forever.
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Prosperity and poverty are not signs of God’s favor or disfavor; God’s promised mercy in the gospel is the only anchor in the storm.
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Think of prayer just as talking. You’re talking to God. It’s not a thing. It’s not something on a checklist. It’s talking to the God who has chosen you and redeemed you and called you into union with his Son and is sanctifying you—one day he will glorify you.
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"I have read many beautiful things in Plato and Cicero, but never this: 'Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden.'" ~ Augustine
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Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit.
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Christianity is not a “to-do” list, but a “‘tis done!” list.
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(🧵 1/19) Remembering Dad Rod—
My heart is heavy with the news that of one of my dearest friends and mentors, Dr. Rod Rosenbladt, has died. A wide variety of eulogies can be written about Rod because he touched the lives of so many people from so many walks of life. Everyone has
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The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God.
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While Scripture must be the only judge in doctrinal controversies, biblicism isn’t biblical.
In fact, biblicism keeps us from taking seriously the objections and the solutions that remain relatively unchanged since the fourth century.
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I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
~ John Newton
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"I have read many beautiful things in Plato and Cicero, but never this: 'Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden.'" ~ Augustine
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Ironically, those who leave the church because of it’s “man-made systems” and try to commune with God privately fall into some of the most ancient man-made systems and rituals in history.
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Evangelicals score high marks for charity (giving what we do not owe), but, in comparison with other traditions, evangelicalism has lacked the depth of theological reflection on justice (giving what we do owe).
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“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.” ~ CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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"Desires for things God has forbidden are a reflection of how sin has distorted me, not how God has made me." -
@SamAllberry
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The gospel isn’t doing something or joining something, but receiving something.
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Your vocation can be good even if it’s not a tool for evangelism.
By pursuing excellence in art and music, if that is our calling, and not using our crafts merely as a means of preaching, teaching, evangelizing, or rebuking, we bring a smile to the face of the God who created
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"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." - C. S. Lewis
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Sound doctrine is never an end in itself. It should always lead us on to a deeper experience of the Father, in the Son, through the Spirit, together with the communion of saints. Doctrine is inherently practical that way or it isn't right doctrine.
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Biblical leadership is quick to repent of wrongs, slow to accuse others and hungry for reconciliation. Wisdom from above sows seeds of peace.
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A minister may fill his pews & communion roll but what he is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is & no more ~ John Owen
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What is it about your own miserable works & doings that you think you could please God more than the sacrifice of His own Son? ―MartinLuther
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In secularized societies, religion doesn’t just disappear. Instead, the point of religion becomes this-worldly fulfillment.
Sin, for example, becomes dysfunction. The solution to sin is not the death of God’s incarnate Son, whose blood secures our eternal redemption; it is
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For some reason, we have become accustomed to judging the world, while discipline is lacking in the church.
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When you're at church look for the lonely and marginalized and see how you can bring the joy of the Lord to their often lonely
#Christmas
season.
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The Christian confession is not “I believe in going to heaven when I die” but “I believe in the resurrection of the body & life everlasting”
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Grace is God's refusal to allow us to define ourselves or to have the last word.
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87% of today’s Evangelical Christians (the heirs of the Reformation) affirm the medieval Roman Catholic conviction “God helps those who help themselves" but this is not the gospel.
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At some point, not caring for each other's physical needs is going to undermine all of our doctrines.
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"No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger."
―John Chrysostom
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Our good works do not go up to God for our reimbursement, but out to others for their refreshment. God is thus glorified.
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What King is this who rules not by demanding the life of his subjects
for the extension of his empire but by giving his own life for them?
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It is not about a tribulation. It is not about a rapture. It is not a one world government. It is not about Russia attacking Israel.
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We possess neither the ability, free will, power, nor the righteousness to repair ourselves and escape the wrath of God. It must all be God’s work, Christ’s work, or there is no salvation.
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The only thing that the church can provide to the world that is truly unique is the gospel.
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Sanctification-that is, the process of becoming holy-is a team sport. You can't grow on your own. You need the family of God.
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If you don’t invest in the Christian, biblical drama and doctrines, you will be shaped by the drama and doctrines Madison Avenue is selling to you every day that you’re getting from CNN or MSNBC or Fox. They’re going to tell you who you are and it’s not going to be in Christ.
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Some culture warriors on the right have claimed recently that “social justice” is code for secular humanism; its very mention should raise “Red” flags. Part of that is due to the tendency sometimes to separate the Great Commission from the Great Commandment.
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A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked, it’s a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.
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Join us in praying for the Sproul family, as R. C. Sproul has gone home to be with the Lord.
The Sproul family has shared the sad news with us that our founder, Dr. R.C. Sproul, went home to be with the Lord this afternoon. Please pray for the Sprouls. Further updates will be available soon.
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"If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
~ C. S. Lewis
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Our Buddhist cousins, Muslim neighbors, and burned-out church-goers need to encounter disciples of Christ who point away from themselves.
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The self-help cottage industry is constantly rebranding itself, even in Christian circles. In the early 2000s, everything was “Purpose-Driven.” Now, the focus is on self-care and embodied practices.
But the answer is the same. Christ came to live the life we could not live and
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There’s no promise that God will take away all of our trials and suffering in life. The promise we have is that even though we go through the valley of the shadow of death, He is with us.
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