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All Blog Posts With Tag: John Calvin
John Calvin on Lent (March 10, 2011)
How should a Christian respond to the call to Lent? John Calvin has a passionate aversion to lent in his Institutes 4.12.20. And when Calvin is passionate about something, we should be slow to ignore it. Institutes 4.12.20: Then the superstitious obser...
Top Ten Theology Books That Have Influenced Me (2011) (March 7, 2011)
(The top ten books that have influenced me the most by reading them in order of most influential to least influential.)1. "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin.If you only read one book outside the bible in your entire life, this should...
Ten Theologians That Have Influenced Me (2011) (February 22, 2011)
Here is my "Top Ten List of Most Influential Theologians." I'll quickly stress that the following theologians have influenced me the most, and only contains books that I've read too. I've excluded authors, if I've only read one of their books too. Some...
Calvin: A Biography by Bruce Gordon (review) (April 6, 2010)
Prof. F. Bruce Gordon's "Calvin" (amazon) is a new biography of John Calvin released in 2009, which coincides to John Calvin's 500th birthday. I learned about the biography from the 2009 Desiring God National Conference: With Calvin in the Theater of G...
John Calvin on the Resurrection of the Living (October 22, 2009)
John Calvin was an expository preacher, who preached sequentially through the scriptures, a few verses at a time, until he had commentated on almost the entire bible (baring a few books including Revelation). He had recorders who would record his lectu...
John Calvin, On Fasting (January 6, 2009)
John Calvin has an excellent explanation on fasting in the Institutes of Christian Religion, Book IV, Chapter 12, Sections 14-21. Fasting is confusing and necessary at once. Fasting does not mean starving yourself in order to make God do something you ...
