Book Review: John Calvin

Title:  John Calvin:  A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology Editor:  Burk Parsons Contributors Include:  Jay Adams, Jerry Bridges, Sinclair Ferguson, Michael Horton, Steve Lawson, John MacArthur, Philip Ryken Publisher:  Reformation Trust, 2008; 257 pp. $19.00 Recommendation (4-star scale):  This year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, I have focused more […]

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Today’s quote (8/29/08)

J. C. Ryle, Holiness: When people talk of having received “…a blessing” and of having found “the higher life,” after hearing some earnest advocate of “holiness by faith and self-consecration,” while their families and friends see no improvement and no increased sanctity in their daily tempers and behaviour, immense harm is done to the cause […]

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Questions to sanctify your life

In this morning’s devotional, Oswald Chambers asks a number of helpful questions to stimulate sanctification in our lives: When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost an intense […]

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Sunday Leftovers (1/7/07 )

“Sanctification” has the basic meaning of being set apart or dedicated to God on the basis of the atoning work of Christ. While God sees believers in Christ as being fully righteous (2 Cor. 5:21), sanctification most often refers to the process of the believer progressively working out his salvation so that he is increasingly […]

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