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Entries Tagged ‘Calvin’s Institutes’

Calvin on The Role of Scripture

It always amazes me how many evangelical believers I talk to who seem to be uncertain about the role in which God intends scripture to play in the Christian’s life.  Time and time again, I encounter believers within the evangelical and charismatic movements who are convinced that we cannot speak of God in absolute terms. Most of these [...]

Puritanism, nonconformity, ‘justification by faith’ and the present day church of Christ

I have experienced an ever deepening and an ever increasing richness in my faith over the last week or so. I have been reading through John MacArthur’s daily bible, Calvin’s Institutes and a book by Martyn Lloyd Jones called From Puritanism to Nonconformity.
 Martyn Lloyd Jones
Martyn Lloyd jones covers the historical background leading up to the events [...]

Books I’ll be reading in 2009

I’m usually always reading something. Hopefully this year will be no different. However two books I desire to work through systematically within the year is the MacArthur daily bible (Christmas present from my wife Laura) and John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian religion.

The bible is my primary objective, as good as some books are, there is [...]

The Calvin Blog 2009

Reformation 21 are blogging through Calvin’s institutes begining in January 2009. You can contact them for a reading schedule inorder to read with them as they study it and blog about it. I guess its a bit like an online book club.
I plan to take advantage of the opportunity as I bought a copy of [...]

Forerunners Friday: John Calvin: Institutes

Ok, I know its only Thursday, but I’m off on holiday at the weekend and may not be online tommorow! So here you have it…

To access John Calvins Institutes online you can follow the link. A good book worth buying, each chapter is pretty small but weighty in information.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF OURSELVES [...]

  

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