God’s Invitation (Matthew 11:28)

The second of the Comfortable Words, John 3:16, demonstrates God’s desire and initiative to save his people. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller unpack this familiar verse and consider its implications for how we think about salvation, fellow image-bearers, and our Christian freedom. QUOTE “For God […]

The third word (1 Timothy 1:15) diagnoses our human condition, revealing not just the subjective feeling of burden but also the objective consequences of violating God’s law. So how is this a “Comfortable Word”? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller consider the doctrine of sin and […]

We have a remedy to our sin problem, declared in 1 John 2:1–2, the fourth and final Comfortable Word. Because Jesus was our sacrifice, he is now our advocate. In this conclusion to our series on Thomas Cranmer’s Comfortable Words, White Horse Inn hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller reflect on the doctrine […]

The coexistence of assurance and doubt is not a contradiction, but a reflection of the Christian life lived between justification and glorification. True assurance rests not in the strength of one’s faith, but in the object of that faith—Jesus Christ—and the presence of doubt, while unsettling, does not nullify genuine belief.

In Christ, you need not fear God’s gavel on the last day—let alone man’s lesser gavels. You can even look forward to that divine gavel with joyful anticipation, for it will signal God’s irreversible declaration that in Christ, you are innocent.

When you are in the throes of suffering, mantras and meditations fall short. We need a more concrete hope. Pastor Adriel Sanchez unpacks Hebrews 6:13–20 and shows how God gives us a sure and unshakable word that anchors us when our faith is shaken by doubt and suffering.

How do our views of penance, repentance, justification, purgatory, and assurance of salvation impact how we live our lives?