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Calvin on Preaching Repentance and Forgiveness

Posted in Historical Theology, John Calvin, tagged , , , , , on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Repentance is preached in the name of Christ when, through the teaching of the gospel, men hear that all their thoughts, all their inclinations, all their efforts, are corrupt and vicious. Accordingly, they must be reborn if they would enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Forgiveness of sins is preached when men are taught that for [...]

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Calvin Anticipates Revivalism’s “New Measures”

Posted in Contra Pelagianism, Historical Theology, John Calvin, tagged , , , , , on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In reply to those who affirm certainty of faith for this life but deny any certainty of faith in the next life, Calvin says:
Then, how absurd it is that the certainty of faith be limited to some point of time, when by its very nature it looks to a future immortality after this life is [...]

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Review: Recovering Mother Kirk: The case for liturgy in the Reformed tradition, by D. G. Hart

Posted in Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Doctrina divina, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Sola Ecclesia, Worship, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Father God; Mother Church?
Daryl Hart’s provocative and penetrating collection of essays, Recovering Mother Kirk, is a profound read; it invites Christians into a way of life that at first sounds like an oxymoron (21-40) and secondly sounds like an evangelical swear word: high-church Calvinism.
Hart reaches out to evangelicals who, having grown fed up with the [...]

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Good Preaching Rouses Satan; Bad Preaching Puts Him To Sleep

Posted in John Calvin, Pilgrim Praxis, Preaching, Soteriology, Worship, tagged on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We Christians get into trouble when we forget the context in which we still live–we are not yet in heaven. Until then, we sojourn in this present evil age. Accordingly, we must constantly tear down false expectations of perfect completeness, the absence of sin, brokenness, and pain, etc., even in the relationships and activities of [...]

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An Emerging Less-”Calvinless” Evangelicalism

Posted in Historical Theology, John Calvin, tagged on September 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Perhaps we (trying not to be) “Calvinless Calvinists” are among an emerging throng of “Young and Restless” Calvinists.
Good news indeed; although, it would have been nice to read that these newbies are reading Calvin himself instead of relying on second- and third-hand interpretations, Edwards and Piper respectively. But such a wish might be asking for [...]

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