How to Furnish Your Heart with Assurance

“It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance than for the mind to be endowed with thought.” So writes John Calvin in in third book of The Institutes of the Christian Religion.  In other words–it’s easier to fill your mind with...

“Our God, contracted to a span.”

A Hymn for Christmas Eve, by Charles Wesley: Let earth and heaven combine, Angels and men agree, To praise in songs divine The incarnate Deity, Our God contracted to a span, Incomprehensibly made man. He laid his glory by, He wrapped him in our clay; Unmarked by human...

The Ordinary Baby of Christmas

Great night with you all last night. So great to sing those songs so loudly together. If you’re interested, here are the notes from the portion of the evening where we looked at Mark 6 in relation to Christmas. In my bible class this year, we are studying the...

Wow.

New Testament scholar James Edwards relates this story: In January 1982 I asked [German theologian] Helmet Thielicke if he could identify the worst evil he experienced in the Third Reich in Germany. His answer: “The unredeemed human...

Let it not reign.

Calvin, on Romans 6:12 (“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”)— He does not say: ‘Let it not be,’ but ‘Let it not reign.’ So long as you live, sin must needs be in your members. At least let it be deprived of...