Book 3/Chapter 25 Resurrection hope (section 1) 1. Why is it hard for us to hope and trust in the coming resurrection? Receiving Christ’s benefits (section 2) 1. Who alone receives the fruit of Christ’s benefits? Christ the pioneer (section 3) 1. Does Calvin acknowledge the difficulty of believing in the resurrection? 2. What are …
Training Faithful Men
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:1-2). With …
Control Your Own Body, Aye
One of the most interesting aspects of the health care debate is watching people who have spent a good portion of their adult lives saying “A,” who then under the pressure of their own position’s internal illogic come out saying “not A.” We are now at that place. Mark Steyn has pointed out, quite aptly, …
But What About . . .
Book 3/Chapter 24 Other passages (section 15) 1. What problem does Calvin address next? 2. How does Calvin answer? Another (section 16) 1. How does Calvin handle 1 Tim. 2:3-4? 2. What is the second way he responds? One last objection (section 17) 1. What two elements of the problem does Calvin grant? 2. What …
NSA Convocation 2009
As it happens, this convocation is occurring in the year of our Lord 2009. This year marks the significant birth anniversaries for various notables—it is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the 200th of Lincoln, the 300th of Samuel Johnson, and of course, the one that really matters, the 500th of John Calvin, the great …
Collision Release
As promised, here is the basic info on the release of Collision. There will be a limited theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles in late October, 2009. There will be a big publicity push around this, but we would still like you to tell all your atheist friends. They all live in …
No Seed of Election
Book 3/Chapter 24 Before the call (section 10) 1. Before one of the elect is called, is there any difference between him and any of the non-elect? 2. How does Calvin show this? Not growth from seed (section 11) 1. How does Calvin describe what happens to the elect? Preaching to a hundred (section 12) …
Daughters and Grandsons
Apropos of nothing in particular, allow me just a few words about education and girls. In many ways, pastoral ministry is like playing that whack-a-mole game — one thing disappears under the mallet, and another one pops up. And it was probably one you thought you dealt with a few years before, and here is …
Training for Maturity
As we continue to learn the nature of body life, we have to understand the distinctions that are made between those with special gifts and all the rest of us who need to learn a basic competence in those gifts. Not every Christian should be a scholar, but every Christian should know how to read. …
Before You Now
Many unbelievers have dismissed this Table before us as a great superstition. Two thousand years after Jesus lived and died, here we are gathering to eat His flesh and drink His blood. What kind of sense does that make? The first thing to note about this charge is the truth of Chesterton’s observation—a man who …
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