“I am tempted, perhaps foolish, to compare the Puritans to the Alps, Luther and Calvin to the Himalayas, and Jonathan Edwards to Mount Everest! He
Category: SANCTIFICATION
Sin: Its Role In Christian Growth
Dr. Jeff Mayfield explains how God uses sin to facilitate our Christian growth. He discusses a passage from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion:
John Calvin’s Institutes for the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 4: How God Works in the Hearts of Men
“Augustine compares the human will to a horse preparing to start, and God and the devil to riders. If God mounts, he, like a temperate
John Calvin’s Institutes for the Christian Religion Book 2, chapter 3: For Self-Understanding
This section of the Institutes discusses the depravity of the hearts of mankind. It is titled, Everything Proceeding from the Corrupt Nature of Man Damnable.
FAITH, THE DEFINITION OF IT; ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES: CALVIN’S INSTITUTES: BOOK3, CH. 2
This chapter consists of three principal parts divided into 43 sections: I. A brief explanation of certain matters pertaining to the doctrine of faith: sec.
The Benefits of Christ Made Available to us by the Secret Operations of the Spirit: Calvin’s Institutes: Book 3; Ch. 1
In the following 18 minute video, Calvin explained: 1. The secret operations of the Holy Spirit which seals our salvation should be considered first in