Blog 50: 2.3.10 – 2.3.14
What makes grace gracious? For Calvin, behind all grace is God’s own decision: “The apostle does not teach that the grace of a good will is bestowed upon us if we accept it, but that He wills to work in…
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More Thoughts on the Coming Collapse
In addition to what Sean Lucas has written, there are several other points worth making about Michael Spencer’s article Tuesday in the Christian Science Monitor:
Calvin 501
For Calvin’s 500th anniversary, you are all set: guided by the Calvin blog on Ref 21, just read daily selections of the Institutes. But what will you do in 2010, for Calvin’s 501st anniversary? Here’s a suggestion: read Joel Beeke’s latest…
“The New Calvinism”
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,…
Blog 49: 2.3.6 – 2.3.9
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…
Facing Death Without God
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…
A Prayer for Pastors, Part 3
“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…
More on Stem Cells
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…
Blog 48: 2.3.1 – 2.3.5
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…