Our Convictions
The distinctives that shape how we read, teach, and live the historic Christian faith.
What are they
The reformational doctrines that distinguish our tradition — law and gospel, two kingdoms, the means of grace, and more.
Why they matter
Get these right and the whole of Christian life finds its proper order, Get these wrong and everything else drifts.
How to use them
Start with the one that puzzles you most. Each conviction, links to resources from across the Sola network.
Editor’s Pick
Golden chain of salvation
Paul’s unbroken link from God’s foreknowledge to our glorification — and the four great distinctions the Reformation recovered along the way; justification and sanctification, imputed and infused righteousness, inward and outward call, union with Christ and Christians.
I
Law/Gospel
Two distinct words God speaks: one demands, one delivers. Confuse them and you lose both.
II
Ordinary Means of Grace
Word, sacrament, and prayer — God's ordinary way of building his people, week after week.
III
Active/Passive Obedience of Christ
Word, sacrament, and prayer — God's ordinary way of building his people, week after week.
IV
Already/Not Yet
The kingdom has come in Christ and is still to come. Living in between is the whole Christian life.
V
Common Grace/General & Special Revelation
God speaks to all through creation and conscience, and savingly to his people through Christ in Scripture.
VI
Confessionalism
Why we trust the old creeds and confessions to say what Scripture says — and what we lose when the church doesn't.
VII
Covenant Theology
Scripture's storyline of promise and fulfillment — the thread that ties Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, and Christ together.
VIII
Creation/Providence
God made all things out of nothing, and he holds all things now — including your hardest day.
IX
Decreed/Revealed Will
What God has secretly ordained and what he has openly commanded — and how to rest in the first while obeying the second.
X
The Five Solas
Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, for the glory of God alone. The Reformation in five words.
XI
Theology of the Cross
God reveals his power through weakness and suffering, not triumph — a hard lesson, an unshakable hope.
XII
Kingdom of God (Two Kingdoms)
Christ's reign over the church and his rule over the common life of the world — distinct, not separate.
XIII
Seeing Christ in the Old Testament
Luke 24 was not a footnote. The Scriptures speak of Jesus from Genesis to Malachi — and we learn to read them that way.
XIV
Threefold Use of the Law
The law as mirror, as restraint, as guide — what it does in the world, in our conscience, and in the life of the saint.
XV
Visible/Invisible Church
The church you can name and number, and the church God alone knows in full — both real, both his.
XVI
Golden Chain of Salvation
Luke 24 was not a footnote. The Scriptures speak of Jesus from Genesis to Malachi — and we learn to read them that way.
