The Holy Spirit is a guarantee of an inheritance to come. That means all who receive the Spirit will never be lost again.

To be a Christian is, by definition, to be indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

The full deity of the Holy Spirit matters for our salvation every bit as much as does the full deity of the Son.

Faith is the result of the miracle of the new birth, produced in us by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit.

Faith is the result of the Holy Spirit's work bringing to fruition God's eternal purpose in his chosen people.

The only way we can come to Jesus in faith is if we are drawn to him by the powerful working of the Father. Faith is a gift.

There is no greater defense of the gospel than the holy lives of those who profess to believe it.

Believers are not perfect, but they will never grow comfortable with sin and will show evidence of a desire to obey Christ.

James does not contradict Paul on faith and works. He teaches that the kind of faith that saves is a faith that works.

False teachers always add mediators alongside Christ and thus subtract from the glory of his saving work.

Christ alone is our hope for salvation, and thus we must beware of adding anything to the gospel.

Can we rely partly on God's grace and partly on our own efforts for salvation? Absolutely not.

Sanctification is essential to our salvation. Without holiness, we would not be fit for Heaven.

Our justification is a sharing in Christ's death and resurrection as the final judgment brought forward into history.

Salvation affects both our standing with God and our personal condition. Both elements are necessary.

The third section of the Apostles' Creed moves from the accomplishment of Christ's saving work to its application to us by the Holy Spirit.

The middle section of the Apostles' Creed gives us a basic summary of the gospel story.

Without a clear, biblical doctrine of creation, the gospel makes no sense.

Saving faith includes knowledge and assent, but if it stops there it is no better than what demons have.

If we do not believe that the gospel is a true account of historical events, we cannot have saving faith. Faith requires assent to truth.