TIME Magazine has compiled a list of “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now”. Check out number three: 1. Jobs Are the New Assets 2. Recycling the Suburbs 3. The New Calvinism 4. Reinstating the Interstate 5. Amortality 6. Africa,…
In this section, Calvin unpacks this statement: “God beings his good work in us, therefore, by arousing love and desire and zeal for righteousness in our hearts; or, to speak more correctly, by bending, forming, and directing, our hearts to…
In his book Dying Without God: Francois Mitterand’s Meditations on Living and Dying, journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert reflects on how athiesm shaped the former French President’s view of death. Al Mohler has written a fine post on the topic. Giesbert describes…
“O Lord, open thou our minds to see ourselves as thou seest us, or even as others see us and we see others; and from all unwillingness to know our infirmities; Save us and help us, we humbly beseech…
Concerning stem cell research there is so much that the public either does not know or about which they are ill informed. Much of this lack of knowledge and disinformation is due to the outrageously slanted coverage in the news…
One key Reformation teaching which both Lutherans and Reformed held in common was the pervasive and inherited corruption of human corruption. In this, Calvin was no different. He notes that the Bible “painted a picture of human nature that showed…
Two new books worth noting: the first, Sinclair Ferguson and Mark Dever write fascinating articles on the theme of puritan preaching, drawing from the instruction offered in Westminster Dircetory for Public Worship (1645). Westminster Directory of Public Worship Discussedby…
Humans want to carve out some place for their own natural abilities when it comes to doings works that conform to God’s law. Ethicists will sometimes talk about “natural law,” an inbred standard of right and wrong that is common…
Congratulations are in order to our very own Sean Lucas and to D.G. Hart and to John Muether, editors and author respectively of the Cornelius Van Til volume in the American Reformed Biography series by P&R. Richard Mouw has a…
