Depravity
Foundations of Grace ·
John Calvin ·
Steve Lawson
2007·05·23
Let men therefore acknowledge that since they are born of Adam, they are depraved creatures and therefore can conceive only sinful thoughts until they are transformed by Christ’s work and are remade by His Spirit into a new life. It...
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John Calvin’s Work Ethic
John Calvin
2007·10·16
I picked up Steve Lawson’s little book The Expository Genius of John Calvin late last night and got about half-way through it before falling asleep. Calvin’s life is a monument to God in many ways. One of the things that...
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“. . . founding our hopes on his promises.”
John Calvin ·
Steve Lawson ·
The Expository Genius of John Calvin
2007·10·22
Let us learn, therefore, not to become drunk on our foolish hopes. Rather, let us hope in God and in God’s promises, and we will never be deceived. But if we base our hopes on our own presumptuousness, God will...
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Calvin on Suffering Affliction
John Calvin ·
Sermons on the Beatitudes
2007·11·05
What if we were to cling to the idea — so firmly planted in our heads that we seem to have been born with it — that if we suffer affliction in the world we can never really be blessed?...
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“God to enjoy”
John Calvin ·
Sermons on the Beatitudes
2008·01·02
Many today, in a silly, compulsive wish to know, ask what kind of glory believers will have in paradise, whether they will stand of be seated or move about, whether they may still enjoy the created things of earth, to...
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Calvin on Bearing Reproach
John Calvin ·
Sermons on the Beatitudes
2008·01·04
In brief, we are exhorted to remember continually what our Lord Jesus teaches in this passage. When we are unjustly afflicted, provided our conscience testifies before God that we are blameless, we must not lose heart, thinking that we are...
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