The final sola is the great underlying reason behind the importance of the first four. The Reformers knew the Biblical truth that: “from him and through him and to him are all things.

The Puritans were the 16th-century English Protestants and their successors in 16th-17th-century New England, whose concern for church reform and spiritual renewal earned them the originally derogatory epithet, “puritan.”

Spurgeon's Christ-centeredness sprang from a deep, personal relationship with the Lord. He loved Christ passionately, and his sermons are filled with rapturous exaltations of Christ.

I once heard an old preacher say that the Bible should be studied with both a microscope and a telescope. He meant that we needed to get both the big picture by reading Scripture broadly, but also do in-depth study of specific passages.

Howell Harris (1714-1773) was one of the greatest leaders of the Evangelical Awakening and Revival in Wales and England in the mid-1700s.

In an era when expository preaching was considered an outdated mode of communication and the Bible was considered an irrelevant book, Martyn Lloyd-Jones restored to the pulpit expository preaching of Scripture.

While Edwards' iron-clad logic was unsurpassed, the clarity of his God-centered thinking was always joined with the intensity of God-centered affections.