Yes, I really blew it. I don’t know why, but I posted this a month early. Go ahead, have a chuckle at my expense, and then get a head start on celebrating. The links below are good, even if the date isn’t.

On this date in 1509, John Calvin, or Jean Chauvin, was born in Noyon, Picardie, France. If not for his premature death on 27 May, 1564, he would be 500 years old today. Even so, his early demise notwithstanding, “he being dead, yet speaketh” — loudly and eloquently.

•  Watch as Steve Lawson discusses his book on John Calvin
•  Meet John Calvin, hymn writer: I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art
•  Watch as Sinclair Ferguson, Steve Lawson, Albert Mohler, and Ligon Duncan discuss why John Calvin is still important today
• Read Theopedia on John Calvin
• Read Calvin’s Commentaties, Institutes of the Christian Religion, and more at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Take advantage of he best deal you’ll find anywhere on Calvin’s Commentaries
• Download the portrait of Calvin that hangs on my office wall, formatted for printing on 8½×11 stock (borderless)