Brad CreechFor much of my Christian upbringing, I viewed the Lord’s Supper as just a simple memorial ceremony—a repetitive object lesson the church pulled out every quarter. It was awkward, I thought. I remember spending many communion services feeling...
Derek BrownWith and Through the Word: Rethinking Regeneration and Effectual Calling in the Reformed Ordo Salutis, Part 1 In the introduction of his volume on the Puritans, The Quest for Godliness, J. I. Packer observes the natural connection that exists...
Kent HendricksCalvin is famous for his commentaries and the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Did you know he was also a master preacher and teacher? There are two ways you can access many of Calvin’s sermons. 1. Learn French Buy a book Buy a language program...
Guest AuthorThe accusation that Calvinism leads to anti-mission sentiments has sometimes been leveled, but as Michael Horton shows in his recent book For Calvinism, nothing could be further from the truth. Horton observes, in the section titled “Calvinism and...
Logos StaffIt was on this day—494 years ago—a 34-year-old respected professor and Doctor of Theology nailed ninety-five revolutionary opinions to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. The Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and...
The Bible can be a difficult book to interpret. Churches split over the interpretation of controversial texts, and many Bible readers feel bewildered about tough passages of Scripture. To help clarify and outline various methods of exegesis and...
I was reading Calvin in His Letters the other day. This truly fascinating book serves as a guide to the Letters of John Calvin. It was interesting to see such personal correspondences, like this one where Calvin is assisting a friend in the hunt for...
In my last post I commented on what I feel like is one of the most commonly quoted pieces of John Calvin. The irony, of course, is that the quote comes from the first line of his first book in Institutes of the Christian Religion. It got me thinking...
The following excerpt was taken from an 1877 issue of the The Tablet, a British Catholic weekly journal that has been published continually since 1840. This article was printed just over 300 years after Calvin’s death and shows the credit...