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• "The [Roman Catholic] Council of Trent anathematizes anyone who says you can be saved without the grace of God. The Reformers, however, never claimed Rome believed you can be saved apart from grace. That wasn't the debate. The debate of the Reformation was never, ever about the necessity of grace, it was always about the sufficiency of grace. That remains the issue today in so many contexts." - James White

  
  

  Grace is not like a box of candy that you can send back if you don't want it. Grace is divine favor, an attitude of God's own heart. We cannot stop him from loving us, if he chooses to do so. Nor can we stop him from giving us blessings of salvation: regeneration, justification, adoption, sanctification, glorification. His purpose in us will certainly be fulfilled, Phil. 1:6, Eph. 1:11. - John Frame

  
  The All-Sufficiency of Christ
  by S. M. Baugh, Ph.D.

  
  The Sufficiency of Grace
  by R.C. Sproul

  
  The All-Sufficiency of Christ in Our Redemption
  by John Hendryx

  
  The Sufficiency of the Written Word
  by Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr

  
  The Sufficiency of Christ
  Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr

  
  The Sufficiency of Christ Alone
  by Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr

  
  The Necessity v. The Sufficiency of Grace
  Pastor John Samson

  
  The Sufficiency of Christ's Obedience in His Life and Death
  by John Piper

  
  Is Christ Sufficient in Our Salvation or do We Need More?
  by Mike Ratliff

  
  Christ Alone
  by J Ligon Duncan on Acts 4:12 & John 1:29icon

  
  Jesus Christ Fount of Every Blessing
  by John Hendryx

  
  Grace Alone
  R.C. Sproul

  
  Grace Alone: An evangelical Problem
  Kim Riddlebarger
  
  

  "Remember, sinner, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee - it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee - it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that is the instrument it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not to thy hope, but to Christ, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Christ, the author and finisher of thy faith; and if thou doest that, ten thousand devils cannot throw thee down." (The Forgotten Spugeon, Iain Murray, 42.)

Study Desk:

Online Study Bible
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ReformedBooks.net
A resource from Monergism.com, ReformedBooks.net provides weekly book reviews and a recommended list of books by topic which we believe deserve the distinction of being best in category.

Theology FAQs With answers drawn from the whole of Scripture, we briefly and concisely cover some of the most common questions about Christianity and Christian theology.

Historic Creeds and Confessions
A Creed, or Rule of Faith, or Symbol, is a confession of faith for public use, or a form of words setting forth with authority certain articles of belief, which are regarded by the framers as necessary for salvation, or at least for the well-being of the Christian Church.

Covenant Theology The key to understanding the Bible. Covenant Theology opens up books and chapers of Scripture like never before and makes sense of what was once puzzling the Bible.

Bible Research
Internet Resources for Students of Scripture - This link is for Bible students who are looking for detailed information on the history of the canon, texts, and versions of Scripture.

The Puritans & Puritanlibrary.com
Extensive but easily navigable sections on Monergism.com with essays and vast resources on and by the Puritans.

Church History
"It is wrong to suppose that the doctrine of justification by faith alone, that storm center of the Reformation, was the crucial question in the minds of such theologians as Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer, and John Calvin. This doctrine was important to the Reformers because it helped to express and to safeguard their answer to another, more vital, question, namely, whether sinners are wholly helpless in their sin, and whether God is to be thought of as saving them by free, unconditional, invincible grace, not only justifying them for Christ's sake when they come to faith, but also raising them from the death of sin by His quickening Spirit in order to bring them to faith." - Michael Haykin