In section 6 Calvin shows that God often dispenses and administers his goodness to us through his angels. Do we each have a guardian angel (section 7)? Calvin doesn’t know. He does know from Scripture that the protection of an…
The New York Times reports on the return of indulgences to the Church of Rome: In recent months, dioceses around the world have been offering Catholics a spiritual benefit that fell out of favor decades ago — the indulgence, a…
RAP aka Reformed Academic Press have come of age and have announced a brand new website here. Among the titles RAP publish are works by Terry Johnson, Richard Gaffin, Herman Witsius and William Beveridge.
Over at Boundless Jonathan Dodson writes: The phone rang. It was our worship leader. With trembling speech he said: “Hey man, it’s an emergency. I made a huge mistake.” Within minutes I was dealing with a broken worship leader, a…
We now move into chapter 14, on creation of the world and man (sections 1-2), the role of angels (sections 3-12) and demons (sections 13-19), and the lessons we should learn (sections 20-22). Today we look at the first five…
I have been doing some work on the glory of God recently and came across this quote from Augustine in The City of God. It’s lengthy, but worthwhile to ponder. It seems that the question of where glory resides, or…
Ted Haggard who spent much of his ministry rallying support for conservative political causes now instructs the ignorant masses that the political right is getting it wrong. Says the newly insightful Haggard:“Just as the church made a horrible mistake several…
Click HERE to listen to Sunday’s Sermon – “Mercy: The Overflow of the Gospel” from the current seriest The Gospel-Driven Church.
Channel 4, one of the UK’s network TV channels, has recently been running a history of Christianity, fronted by some well-known figures. I have already blogged on the first episode, which pretty much argued that Christianity is anti-Semitic at heart.…
In these final sections of chapter 13 Calvin considers two arguments against the Trinity. Theologically, the anti-Trinitarians argued that Christ’s subordination to the Father was counterevidence to the Trinity (section 26). Historically, they appealed to the Church Fathers against the…
