The Reformers believed men may counsel, but they may not rule where God has not ruled. Scripture binds the conscience because God made the conscience, and God alone has the right to command it, not church, council, or tradition.  Read More

Taken together, the confessions teach that the Bible is not a collection of pious opinions about God. It is God’s own Word given through human writers by the Holy Spirit, and therefore to be received as divine.  Read More

The Reformed confessions insist that the Bible’s authority rests entirely on God, who speaks in Scripture, not on any church’s approval. Therefore councils and traditions must be tested by Scripture, and faithful preaching carries authority only as it truly delivers God’s written Word.  Read More

The Reformers insisted that nature can humble and convict, but only Scripture reveals God’s will for salvation and preserves the church in the truth.  Read More

The Reformers insisted that before we can rightly know God’s will, worship Him faithfully, or obey Him rightly, we must hear Him speak.  Read More

The Reformers were not fighting for lifeless worship, but for worship governed by God’s Word rather than human preference. This recovery does not choke joy. It protects joy by re-centering worship on God’s glory in Christ, so doctrine is meant to end in adoration.  Read More

The Reformed confessions do not treat providence as a cold, mechanical decree. Providence means the world is upheld and governed by a Father, not by chance, from the smallest details to the greatest events. Nothing escapes His fatherly care, even when what He ordains is hard.  Read More

These confessions want believers confident that salvation rests on God’s mercy, while also making clear that the God who elects also sanctifies. Grace is the root. Holiness is the fruit.  Read More

The Reformed confessions insist on the Spirit’s full deity because salvation is not only planned by the Father and purchased by the Son. It must be applied to you by God Himself, the Holy Spirit.  Read More

The Reformed confessions insist on the Son’s full deity because the gospel collapses without it. Only God can save. Therefore the Savior must be God.  Read More

The Reformers wanted Christians to know God as Father, not as an employer who tolerates them, but as the One who loves, sends, and adopts.  Read More

The Reformers did not treat the Trinity as advanced doctrine for specialists. They treated it as the name of the God who saves.  Read More