Posted in Blogging Calvin on February 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Knowing God.
Knowing about God.
There’s a big difference. Everyone knows about God in a sense, that’s Romans 1. But knowing God. Relationship. Understanding what pleases Him. What He desires from us. That’s what we want. And Calvin says that the difference between a person knowing about God and knowing God [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
(Part Six)
I don’t think it is too hard to prove that knowing God is the most important pursuit in life.
Not just knowing that there is a God. Romans 1 tells us that everyone knows that. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on November 9, 2006 | No Comments »
(Part Five)
It would seem that there are few things more important than truly knowing yourself.
Obviously you are going to live with yourself for a while so it’s a good thing to know a little bit about who you are. It’s one of the differences really between being sane and being delusional. If a [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on October 27, 2006 | No Comments »
(Part Four)
It’s impossible to really know God without really knowing yourself.
It’s no wonder Satan’s got so many schemes and strategies for keeping us from seeing ourselves for who really are. If we have a distorted image of ourselves we will end up with a distorted image of God.
Clement of Alexandria put it like this, [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on October 20, 2006 | No Comments »
(Part Three)
Tradition.
It seems like we as Christians can make two errors when it comes to tradition. One is to completely ignore it. The other is to be enslaved to it. As a pastor this is a challenge when studying the Scripture. Some like new interpretations just because they are new. [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on October 9, 2006 | No Comments »
(Part Two)
I think I was about twenty one when one of my former pastors converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
It hit me pretty hard.
I was a young man. I wanted to serve Christ and here this man who knew so much more than I did was in many ways fundamentally turning his back on many of the [...]
Posted in Blogging Calvin on October 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
(I thought I could work my way through the Institutes on Mondays… 
It was tough to be a reformer.
Calvin, he writes, “I have had no other purpose than to benefit the church by maintaining the pure doctrine of godliness. Yet I think that there is no one who is assailed, bitten, and wounded by more [...]
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