Doctrine & Theology

"God" - Benjamin B. Warfield
"God" - Stephen Charnock
"The True God" - James Montgomery Boice
"Why I Believe in God" - Cornelius VanTil
"The Divine Trinity" - Herman Bavinck
"The Trinity" - Thomas Watson
"The Undivided Three: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Church History " - Michael Haykin
"The Trinity of God " - G.H. Kersten
"The Trinity " - Louis Berkhof
"The Arian Controversy" - Rev. Harold Hanko
"A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity" - John Owen
"On God's Omnipresence" - Stephen Charnock
"The Knowledge of God" - Dale H. Kuiper
"Study Providence" - Stephen Charnock
"The Hand of God" - Francis Schaeffer

The Doctrine Of Holy Scripture

The Doctrine Of Christ

The Doctrine Of God/Theology Proper

The Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit

God's Work Of Creation

The Doctrine Of The Church

The Doctrine Of Man

The Doctrine Of The Last Things

The Doctrine Of Sin

The Doctrine Of Salvation

"Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments."
~ John Calvin (1509 – 1564)

We need theology for the sake of people. Theology is the application of the Word by persons to the world and all areas of human life.
John Frame (Salvation Belongs to the Lord, pg. 72)

Theologically speaking, we refer to Christ’s death on the cross as offering atonement for the sins of God’s people. Jesus died in order to pay the penalty for our wickedness and to make it possible for us to have blessed fellowship with our Creator. "The atonement is the crucial doctrine of the faith. Unless we are right here, it matters not, it seems to me, what we are like elsewhere." Leon Morris.  Continue Reading

"That Christ "died for our sins according to the Scriptures" (1 Cor 15:3) is the...single most frequently used lens through which Christians in the New Testament sought to understand Jesus...Christ dying for our sins is the starting point for all further reflection about him, such as the incarnation and the Trinity...Atonement is the cornerstone of all theology, being the "stone that the builders rejected" which has now become the cornerstone (Matt 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7; quoting Paslm 118:22). The New Testament writers without exception understood the death of Christ as the fulcrum for all theology because it was the worst thing that could have happened and the best thing that could have happened...The content of theology is the power in the blood. It is the hub, made indefectibly strong by Christ's resurrection, from which all the spokes of theology derive." Paul F.M. Zahl 

Introductory Essay to John Owen’s Death of Death in the Death of Christ (eBook) by J I Packer

23 Free Classic eBooks on the Atonement by Reformed Study

The Atonement of Christ (MP3 Series) by William Still

The Doctrine of the Atonement As Taught By the Apostles (eBook) by George Smeaton

Doctrine of the Atonement by William Cunningham

The Atonement (.pdf) PDF by Derek Thomas

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen

The Nature of the Atonement by Louis Berkhof

Sacrifice - Jesus Christ Made Atonement for Sin PDF by J I Packer

The Atonement by Loraine Boettner

Christ Crucified PDF by C H Spurgeon

“My Counsel Shall Stand, and I Will Accomplish All My Purpose” - - Isaiah 46:8–11

[God's sovereignty] simply refers to the fact that all things are under His rule and control, and that nothing happens in this Universe without His direction or permission. He is a God Who works, not just some things, but all things after the counsel of His own will (see Eph. 1:11). God's purpose is all- inclusive and is never thwarted (see Isa. 46:11). Nothing Takes Him by Surprise. - Monergism 

"God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established" -- Westminister Confession of Faith, 3.1. 

• God is sovereign over the entire universe: Ps 103:19; Rom 8:28; Eph 1:11

• God is sovereign over all of nature: Ps 135:6-7; Mt 5:45; 6:25-30

• God is sovereign over angels & Satan: Ps 103:20-21; Job 1:12

• God is sovereign over nations: Ps 47:7-9; Dan 2:20-21; 4:34-35

• God is sovereign over human beings: 1 Sam 2:6-7; Gal 1:15-16

• God is sovereign over animals: Ps 104:21-30; 1 Ki 17:4-6

• God is sovereign over "accidents": Pr 16:33; Jon 1:7; Mt 10:29

• God is sovereign over free acts of men: Ex 3:21; 12:25-36; Ez 7:27

• God is sovereign over sinful acts of men and Satan: 2 Sam 24:1; 1 Chr 21:1; Gen 45:5; 50:20

The Crook in the Lot (eBook)

by Thomas Boston

The Sovereignty of God (eBook)

by A W Pink

God’s Sovereignty

by John Calvin

Adversity

by Terry Johnson

God's Indisputable Sovereignty

PDF by Scripture References

Anti-Pelagian Writings (eBook)

by St Augustine

Sphere Sovereignty (eBook)

by Abraham Kuyper

Divine Sovereignty and Evangelism

by J I Packer

The Sole Consideration, that God is God, Sufficient to Still All Objections to His Sovereignty

by Jonathan Edwards

The Potter and the Clay

by George Whitefield

The Sovereignty of God: An Exposition On The Seventh Question Of the Westminster Shorter Catechism

PDF by Rev David Petrie

The Sovereignty of Divine Grace asserted and illustrated

by John Newton

The Great Mystery of Providence (eBook)

by George Gifford

Suffering, Sovereignty, and the Cross: Understanding God's Justice in a Fallen World

 by Monergism Answers

The church is the community of all true believers for all time. This definition understands the church to be made of all those who are truly saved. Paul says, "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Eph 2:25). Here the term "the church" is used to apply to all those whom Christ died to redeem, all those who are saved by the death of Christ. But that must include all true believers for all time, both believers in the New Testament age and believers in the Old Testament age as well.
Wayne Grudem

The starting point in ecclesiology is the ontological connection between Christ and the church. The church exists as church only insofar as it is Christ’s body, in union with him, meaning also our union in him, both of which are a matter of his free and gracious choice. The church has no other ground of being than Jesus Christ. This means in a primary way that the church is not the church as institution, or a voluntary collection of free, religiously and ethically motivated individuals, or, with its episcopate, as an historically ordered hierarchy that determines what it is and what it does. It is Christ alone who determines the “that” and the “what” of the church, who loves the church and calls and forms it according to his own purpose. The church is what he is in that he is Lord of the church in whom and from whom alone it has life. As such, the church belongs to Christ, not to itself. The church is not self-referenced. In a primary sense, its being is iconic, not institutional, as it points away from itself to Christ.
Andrew Purves Reconstructing Pastoral Theology (pg. 97)

[T]he church in Scripture is composed of all the redeemed in every age who are saved by grace through personal faith in the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ, “the seed of the woman” (Gen. 3:15) and suffering Messiah (Isa. 53:5–10).
Robert L. Reymond A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (pg. 805)

An understanding of the church's nature and role, especially the significance of preaching, discipline, and communion. Continue reading

The Biblical Theology of the Church PDF by Edmund P Clowney

The Church by J I Packer

The Doctrine of the Church by Louis Berkhof

The Lord of the Church by Dr. John MacArthur