Love toward the Unlovely
God loves His people not because they are lovely but because He is love.
Experimental preaching must be discriminatory
Discriminatory preaching must remain faithful to God’s Word. Grace is to be offered indiscriminately to all; however, the divine acts, marks, and fruits of grace that God works in his people must be explained to encourage the elect to know themselves aright and to uncover the false hopes of the hypocrites.
Calvin The Educator
Calvin models for us a proper recognition of the importanceof education—especially seminary training, which is the backbone of theChristian enterprise.
Assurance May Take Time to Develop
Assurance is not the same thing as faith, but it’s closely related to it.
Jesus is the way back to God
What did Jesus mean when He said, “I am the way?” The way to whom, to what? He meant the way to God the Father, the way to eternal life.
Christ’s Love in Heaven: Utopian Perfection
Our perfect soul taken up to Christ. Our perfect body raised up by Christ. Our perfect salvation in the love of Christ.
Christ’s Ascension for Us
Sermon about: Christ taken from us. Christ remaining with us. Christ caring for us. Christ inseparable from us.
The Indispensability of the Spirit
By his grace, the Holy Spirit can make the lives of godly Christians contagious in families, the church, and the marketplace.
Who Should Pray?
The gospel calls poor, lame, and blind sinners, those who are full of sin and putrefying spiritual sores, to come to Christ for healing—to Him who delights in showing mercy and love to miserable creatures.
