"When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian."

Biographical Sketch
Dr. Michael Scott Horton (b. 1964) - is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics and is heard regularly on the excellent White Horse Inn radio program, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring
issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity.. He was formerly the president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a society of in the Reformation Tradition which "exists to call the twenty-first century church to a reformation that recovers clarity and conviction about the great evangelical truths of the gospel and that then seeks to proclaim these truths powerfully in our contemporary context." He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. A covenant theologian and an advocate of covenant baptism.
Horton received an M.A. from Westminster Seminary California, a Ph.D. from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and the Coventry University, and completed a Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. He is also an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches of North America in which denomination he has served two churches in southern California.
Selected Bibliography
A Better Way:
Rediscovering the
Drama of God-Centered
Worship
Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church *****
Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama
Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ
Five Views on Sanctification
God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology
Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism
Putting Amazing Back into Grace *****
Law of Perfect Freedom: Relating to God and Others Through the Ten Commandments
Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology
People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology
Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism
Too Good to Be True: Finding Hope in a World of Hype
Where in the World is the Church?
4 Views on Eternal Security
Online Articles and Resources
- A New Creation
- Pelagianism: Religion of the Natural Man
- Receiving Christ
Michael Horton
- Christless Christianity
Michael S. Horton
- Beyond Style Wars: Recovering the Substance of Worship
Michael Horton
- The Romans Revolution
Michael Horton
- The Disturbing Legacy of Charles Finney
Michael Horton
- Grace: How Strange the Sound
Michael S. Horton
- What Makes Something a Sacrament?
Michael S. Horton
- The Indicative and The Imperative - A Reformation View of Sanctification
Michael S. Horton
- Eschaton or Escape? Paul's Two Ages Vs. Plato's Two Worlds
Michael S. Horton
- Good News for Bad Dads
Michael S. Horton
- Whatever Happened to Sin?
Michael S. Horton, Ph.D.
- Preaching Christ
Michael S. Horton
- My Father's World - Christ & Culture
Michael S. Horton
- A Permanent Address
Michael Horton
- Beyond Culture Wars - A Roundtable Discussion with...
J.I. Packer, James Boice, Richard Halverson, William Pannell & Michael S. Horton
- What's Really at Stake
Michael Horton - Law, Gospel and Covenants
- What Are We Looking for in the Bible?
Michael S. Horton
- Here Comes the Judge
Michael S. Horton
- Re-thinking Baptism
Michael S. Horton
- Re-thinking the Lord's Supper
Michael S. Horton
- Religion and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
William Bennett, Os Guinness, Michael Horton, Jim Wallis and Moderator Cal Thomas
- Book Review: First Theology: God, Scripture & Hermeneutics by Kevin Vanhoozer
Michael S. Horton
- Transforming Culture with a Messiah Complex
Michael Horton
- Legal Rather than Evangelical Knowledge
Michael S. Horton - Calvin on the Limits of Natural Theology
- What About Bob? The Meaning of Ministry in the Reformed Tradition
by Michael Horton
- Union With Christ
Michael Horton - Regeneration, or the new birth, is the commencement of this union. ...The first gift of this union is faith, the sole instrument through which we live and remain on this vine.
- How the Kingdom Comes
Michael Horton - The church becomes countercultural by sinking its roots ever deeper into God's heavenly gifts
- Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man
Michael S. Horton
- Evangelical Arminians:Option or Oxymoron?
Michael S. Horton
- God's Grandchildren: The Biblical Basis for Infant Baptism
Michael S. Horton
- Finding A Church
Michael Horton A Brief Guide for the Discriminating Worshiper
- The Emergent Church Movement 2
Michael Horton (mp3)
- Pastor's and Theologian's Forum on the Emerging Church
D. A. Carson, Mark Driscoll, Michael Horton, Mike McKinley, Daniel Montgomery, Brent Thomas, Carl Trueman, and Jonathan Leeman.
- Without Excuse
Michael Horton
- Union With Christ
Michael S. Horton
- Singing The Blues with Jesus
Michael Horton
- The Promise-Driven Life
Michael S. Horton
- A Discussion With Robert Schuller
Michael Horton
- Preaching Christ Alone
Michael Horton
- WANTED: Ministers Who Preach Not Themselves But Christ
Michael Horton - God has sent his ministers on his missions. They are not free to spout their wit and wisdom, but are under orders to deliver as ambassadors a particular message from their Sovereign.
- God's Grandchildren
- MICHAEL S. HORTON
- A New Creation
Michael Horton
- Christ the Lord
Michael Horton
- Singing The Blues with Jesus
Michael Horton
- Beyond Culture Wars
Michael S. Horton
- What is an Evangelical?
Michael Horton
- Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?
Michael S. Horton
- What Makes Something a Sacrament
Michael Horton
- Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man
by Michael S. Horton
- Reformation Essentials - Five Pillars of the Reformation
Michael Horton - Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Soli Deo Gloria
- Preaching Christ Alone
Michael S. Horton
- A New Creation
Michael Horton
- The Promise-Driven Life
Michael Horton
- Who Saves Whom?
Michael S. Horton
- Union With Christ
Michael S. Horton
- When Your "Testimony" Is Boring
Michael S. Horton
- Saved From God
Michael S. Horton
- Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man
Michael S. Horton
- But Is It Relevant?
Michael S. Horton - If justification isn't the hit it used to be, the problem is with us.
- Eschaton or Escape? Paul's Two Ages Vs. Plato's Two World
Michael S. Horton
- Our Father In Heaven
- MICHAEL S. HORTON
- Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
- MICHAEL S. HORTON
- Thine Is the Kingdom and Glory Forever
- MICHAEL S. HORTON
- Recovering the Art of Christian Prudence
Michael Horton
- What is the Reformed Faith?
Michael S. Horton
- When The Salt Loses Its Savor
Michael Horton
- The Covenant Summons: When God Gathers His People in Worship
Michael Horton
- The Church & Israel
Michael S. Horton
- Heaven Came Down: The Mission of Christ
Michael S. Horton
- Without Excuse
Michael S. Horton
- Too Good to Be True (MP3)
Michael Horton - Lecture on his book, "Too Good to Be True"
- Remnant: Who Is Israel?
Michael S. Horton - There is no way back to Sinai, but this is acually good news, since no one could be saved according to the righteousness of the law. The only way to be saved, and therefore, to belong to the true Israel of God, is to be "in Christ
- Union with Christ: The Double Cure
Michael S. Horton
- Can We Be Confessional and Catholic? : Prospects for Christian Unity Today
Michael Horton
- Was Geneva a Theocracy?
Michael Horton
- Dj Vu All Over Again
Michael Horton
- Something God Cannot Do
Michael S. Horton
- How Can We Know God?
Michael Horton
- Why Seminary? The Continuing Importance of an Educated Ministry
Michael Horton
- Does Justification Still Matter?
Michael Horton
- Enthroned On A Cross
Michael S. Horton, D.Phil.
- Joel Osteen and the Glory Story: A Case Study
Michael S. Horton, Ph.D.
- Evangelicalism Today: Symposium: Six Evangelicals Assess Their Movement
Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk
- Become a Better You: Reflections on Joel Osteen's Latest Book
Michael S. Horton
- Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Church and Culture
Thabiti Anyabwile, John Frame, Michael Horton, David Jackman, Jonathan Leeman, Aaron Menikoff, Philip Ryken, Tony Payne, and Stephen Um
- Roman Catholics and Justification (MP3)
Michael Horton talks with Robert Sungenis
- Part 1 - Reforming Worship
Michael S. Horton
- Part 2 - Preaching Christ
Michael S. Horton
- Part 3 - Reforming Church Music
Michael S. Horton
- Part 4 - Reforming the Church Service
Michael S. Horton
- Part 5 - Re-thinking Baptism
Michael S. Horton
- Part 6 - Re-thinking the Lord's Supper
Michael S. Horton
- Was Geneva A Theocracy?
Michael S. Horton
- Christ & Culture: The Illustrative Life of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
Michael S. Horton
- How Your Theology Shapes Your Worldview
Michael S. Horton
- The Apostle Paul & Oprah Winfrey
Michael S. Horton
- Marketing the Church
Michael S. Horton
- Joel Osteen: A Case Study in American Religion (MP3)
Dr. Michael Horton
- 490th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (MP3)
Michael Horton - White Horse Inn Radio Program
- The Purpose and Nature of Parables -Isaiah 29:11-24; Luke 8:1-15(MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Parables of Christ (MP3)
Michael Horton - Luke 8:4-15
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit - John 14:25–29, 16:5–15 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Westminster Theological Seminary - California
Robert Godfrey, Michael S. Horton and Others
- God and Suffering - Part I (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part II (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part III (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part IV (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part V (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part VI (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part VII (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part VIII (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- God and Suffering - Part IX (MP3)
Rev. Dr. Michael Horton
- The Gospel According to Barnes and Noble - Part 1
Dr. Michael Horton
- The Gospel According to Barnes and Noble - Part 2
Dr. Michael Horton
- The Six Major Arguments of the Book of Romans Class 2 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Six Major Arguments of the Book of Romans Class 3 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Nine Points of Synod: Response to "The New Perspective on Paul" Class 1 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Nine Points of Synod: Response to "The New Perspective on Paul" Class 2 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Nine Points of Synod: Response to "The New Perspective on Paul" Class 3 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Ascension of Christ (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Resurrection Evidences (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Lord of Life and Death (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Enthronement of the Gift-Given King (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Good Samaritan (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- A Thanksgiving Parade (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- The Missionary Servant (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Psalm 87 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Westminster Theological Seminary California
- Paul's Longing (MP3)
Michael Horton - Westminster Theological Seminary California
- 1 Kings 17:17-24 Devotional (MP3)
Michael Horton - Westminster Theological Seminary California
- Good News For Losers (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2006 Oklahoma City Conference on Reformed Theology
- Where is God When We Suffer? (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2006 Oklahoma City Conference on Reformed Theology
- Figuring It All Out: Trying to Read God's Mind (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2006 Oklahoma City Conference on Reformed Theology
- When God Goes to a Funeral (with Q&A) (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2006 Oklahoma City Conference on Reformed Theology
- The Last Days and the Book of Revelation (MP3)
Michael Horton - High Desert United Reformed Church
- The Promise-Driven Life (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Thanksgiving Day: Taste and See (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Reformation Day (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Good Friday: When God Passes Over (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Thanksgiving Day: Are You In The Thanksgiving Parade? (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Another Attorney (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Mountain-Moving Faith (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Drafted Into The War To End All Wars (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Our Gift-Giving King (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Trading Places (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed ChurchChristianity and Culture Class 1 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 2 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 3 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 5 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 6 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 7 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Christianity and Culture Class 8 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 1 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 2 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 3 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 4 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 5 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 6 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 7 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 8 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 9 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 10 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 11 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 12 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 13 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 14 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Our Worship Class 15 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- Dr. Michael Horton from Westminster Seminary California answers the question, "Are Churches Secularizing America?" (MP3)
The Paul Edwards Program
- Hellenistic or Hebrew? Open Theism and Reformed Theological Method
Michael S. Horton - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Jun 2002)
- Creeds and Deeds
Michael S. Horton
- Missional & Reformed: Reaching the Lost & Teaching the Reached
Westminster Seminary California
- Does God Have a Plan for My Life? (MP3)
Michael Horton - Grace Bible Church
- Can I Know God’s Plan for My Life? (MP3)
Michael Horton - Grace Bible Church
- Is the Bible Sufficient for My Life? (MP3)
Michael Horton - Grace Bible Church
- Decision Making & the Will of God Question and Answer Session (MP3)
Michael Horton - Grace Bible Church
- Why the Marks of the Church Need the Mission
Michael S. Horton
- "Panel Discussion 1 (Friday evening)" (MP3)
D. A. Carson & Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- "Two Mothers, Two Mountains" (MP3)
Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- "The Promise-Driven Life" (MP3)
Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- "Panel Discussion 2 (Saturday afternoon) Pt.1" (MP3)
D. A. Carson & Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- "Panel Discussion 2 (Saturday afternoon) Pt.2" (MP3)
D. A. Carson & Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- "Panel Discussion 3 (Saturday evening)" (MP3)
D. A. Carson & Michael Horton - Desert Springs Church
- Your Own Personal Jesus
Michael S. Horton
- Selling Jesus (MP4 Video)
Michael Horton and the Gang "live" White Horse Inn taping
- The Gospel and its Implications for the Church with Michael Horton (MP3)
Michael Horton - 9 Marks Interviews
- Sacred Message, Sacred Mission (MP3)
Michael Horton - Pnter Vedra Presbyterian Church
- God Glorified in The Cross of Christ
Michael Horton
- The Gospel According to the Heretic Pelagius (YouTube)
Michael Horton (White Horse Inn)
- Onward Christian Soldiers? (Audio)
Michael Horton - The Path - Frontpage Interviews
- Obsessed with Rapture (MP3 Download)
Dr. Michael Horton
- 1 Cor 11:17-34 and What the Supper is and Isn’t (MP3)
Michael Horton
- An Introduction to Systematic Theology: Class 2 (MP3)
Dr. Michael Horton
- The Servant Who Is Lord (MP3)
Michael Horton - Escondido United Reformed Church
- Whose Orthodoxy?: How to Define It and Why It's So Important
Dr. Michael Horton
- Christless Christianity: the Alternative Gospel of the American Church (MP3)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- "Casting new Characters: The Word as a Means of Grace" - Session 1 (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2008 RHC: The Reformation & the Means of Grace
- "A New Wardrobe: Baptism as a Means of Grace" - Session 2 (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2008 RHC: The Reformation & the Means of Grace
- "A Feast in a Fast_Food World: The Lord's Supper as a Means of Grace" - Session 3 (MP3)
Michael Horton - 2008 RHC: The Reformation & the Means of GraceViewpoint: Dr. Michael S. Horton
Horton Interviewed in Washington Post
- Book Review: Lord and Servant, by Michael S. Horton
Reviewed by Nathan Pitchford
- Postmodernism in the Church (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- The Uneasy Relationship between Reformed Christianity and American Evangelicalism
Michael S. Horton
- Suburbanization of American Christianity (MP3)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Holy Land, Holy War - Pacific Northwest Reformation Conference (MP3)
Michael Horton - Lynden United Reformed Church
- Christianity & Pop Culture (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- The Feminization of Christianity (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- God's Peace & Justice (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Theology of the Cross & Worship (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Michael Horton: An Alternative Gospel (MP3)
Michael Horton - Knowing The Truth Radio Program
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Michael S. Horton
- American Evangelicalism Part 1 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- American Evangelicalism Part 2 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Eastern Orthodoxy Part 1 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Eastern Orthodoxy Part 2 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Christ-Centered Worship (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- The Secularization of the Church (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Christless Christianity Part 1 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Christless Christianity Part 2 (WMA)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
- Calvin on Law and Gospel
Michael Horton
- Psalm 74; Luke 24:13-35 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- 1 Samuel 2:1-10; Luke 1:26-56 — "The New Covenant’s First Evangelist (MP3)
Michael Horton - Christ United Reformed Church
- I Corinthians 11:17-34 (MP3)
Michael Horton - Grace Presbyterian Church
- Concept of Covenant in 'God of Promise'
Michael Horton
- The Gospel-Driven Church (MP3)
Michael Horton - Issues, Etc. Radio Program
Archive of Michael Horton's Online Sermons (Audio)
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