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The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
— Michael S. Horton
When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.
— Michael S. Horton
We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.
— Michael S. Horton
We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange
— Michael Horton
When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.
— Michael S. Horton
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
— Michael Horton
The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.
— Michael S. Horton
Nothing comes close to the wisdom that God has displayed in the salvation of sinners.
— Michael S. Horton
God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
— Michael Horton
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
— Michael Horton
The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.
— Michael Horton
God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.
— Michael S. Horton
In essence, don't wait for the host to move you to the children's table.
— Michael S. Horton
We are justified through faith in Christ, not through doctrinal precision.
— Michael S. Horton
The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.
— Michael S. Horton
A sentimentalized law proclaimed as gospel is disastrous.
— Michael S. Horton
This requires a lifetime of divine therapy: having our minds and hearts transformed by God's Word.
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Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV;
— Michael S. Horton
The fact that makes sin so utterly sinful is that it is ultimately against God.
— Michael S. Horton
If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out.
— Michael S. Horton
As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does.
— Michael S. Horton
Works are witnesses to, not the basis of, our right standing before God.
— Michael S. Horton
A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.
— Michael S. Horton
We're not building a kingdom, but receiving one.
— Michael S. Horton
Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something else, and you lose both.
— Michael S. Horton
We are not called to live the gospel but to believe the gospel and to follow the law in view of God's mercies.
— Michael S. Horton
It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.
— Michael S. Horton
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.
— Michael S. Horton
Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
— Michael S. Horton
If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
How can I trust that the Bible is reliable?
— Michael Horton
If ambition has been converted from a vice to a virtue, contentment has been transformed from a virtue into a vice.
— Michael S. Horton
Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
It is nothing new when young people want churches to pander to them. What is new is the extent to which churches have obliged.
— Michael S. Horton
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
— Michael Horton
The pursuit of autonomous metaphysics is idolatry.
— Michael S. Horton
In a digital age, blogs are often more authoritative than sermons.
— Michael S. Horton
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
— Michael Horton
The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.
— Michael Horton
If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.
— Michael S. Horton
God is truly to be found in the weak things of the world.
— Michael S. Horton
When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.
— Michael S. Horton
The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.
— Michael S. Horton
Paul never encouraged Timothy to contemplate his personal "legacy.
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The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.
— Michael S. Horton
Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.
— Michael S. Horton
God loves 'stuff;' after all He made it
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The Next Big Thing is not another Pentecost or another apostle or another political or social cause. It is Christ's return.
— Michael S. Horton
You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence.
— Michael S. Horton
God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.
— Michael Horton
Christ's body is not a stage for my performance,
— Michael S. Horton
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
— Michael S. Horton
The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook.
— Michael S. Horton
The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.
— Michael S. Horton
If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
— Michael Horton
Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.
— Michael Horton
The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.
— Michael S. Horton
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
— Michael S. Horton
If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.
— Michael S. Horton
A ministry based on pragmatism is built on sand regardless of whether it is more traditional or contemporary.
— Michael S. Horton
Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.
— Michael S. Horton
Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature.
— Michael S. Horton
Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.
— Michael S. Horton
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
— Michael Horton
The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.
— Michael Horton
In every sacrament there are two things: a sign and a thing signified.
— Michael S. Horton
Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners.
— Michael S. Horton
If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.
— Michael S. Horton
Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.
— Michael S. Horton
God does not exist for us; we exist for God.
— Michael S. Horton
Loving Neighbors Is Tougher Than Loving Causes
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A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared.
— Michael S. Horton
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An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt. 12:39 NKJV),
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The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.
— Michael S. Horton
We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"~ Dr. Michael Horton — Anna Sofia Botkin
