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01/24/2026

“Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.” – John Chysostom

01/06/2026

This volume is the superior big brother to its sister volume, Against Calvinism. As the writer of that volume states in the forward, are we getting the message right? Horton on why Calvinism gets the message right and admit that it is an insulting nickname. And the problem with Calvinism is that people often relegated merely to its five points. Which are not five points of Calvinism as much as they are five defenses against Arminianism. But Horton doesn’t start with us. He starts at creation and how is the image of God that image was marked but not lost in the garden. he often shows how Calvinism is the orthodoxy and in the 17th century (from modernity to today) orthodoxy has been on a slippery slope. There is discussion on whether Christ came to actually save or merely made salvation possible. He also shows how the charges of antinomian ism and legalism are foolish to accuse Calvinism of. He also dedicated space to the evangelical zeal of the Calvinists. There is space dedicated to Abraham Kuyper’s warning against slippery slopes. But the afterword reveals the true reminder: our zeal often makes us lose sight of what is important: Christ and His blessings.

In an eloquent defense of Calvinist theology, author an…

11/22/2025

12/13/2022

Calvin:

Jesus Christ is the head of the church, and for his sake God owns and accepts us as his children. Believing this means much more than people generally imagine.
Those who are not familiar with Holy Scripture may find it strange that we can receive blessing simply by believing. They may think faith is not enough of a virtue to earn us such a reward. However, believing in Jesus Christ is not equivalent to believing a story that we were told or that we have read; it means truly receiving him as presented to us by God the Father. We must embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as the one who has paid for our sin to reconcile us to God. We must entirely trust in him for salvation, assured that he has provided all that we need to gain our eternal inheritance.
If we are certain of these things, it will not surprise us that we become children of God simply by believing. Yet we must also remember that faith has no merit in itself; it is not a question of weighing our faith in the balance to assess its value as a virtue. No, we become children of God through free adoption.
If you are looking for the cause of this, I tell you the true source of salvation is in the mercy of God alone in choosing to take pity upon us. This is achieved by means of faith, as we have said before. When all our pride and vain presumption has been taken away and we recognize that we are lost by nature, then we take refuge in the Lord Jesus Christ.

John Calvin and Joel R. Beeke, 365 Days with Calvin (Leominster; Grand Rapids, MI: Day One Publications; Reformation Heritage Books, 2008), 366.

07/01/2021

Go like our new page Dust Jackets

04/17/2021

Justification is by Christ Alone. This is a short section from the Westminster Confession of Faith Teaching Series by Dr. John Gerstner. Chapter 11 on Justif...

03/17/2021

https://youtu.be/eaC2O03Bxzk

The bi-weekly Chapel service on the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Chapel is livestreamed every Tuesday and Th...

03/05/2021

A familiar story

Pastor Matt Crawford delivers a sermon on John 4. The woman at the well is shown how God requires us to worship Him.Referenced: Regulative Principle of Worsh...

03/03/2021

https://youtu.be/fre4haOPkiU

This video was taken from a Q and a session at Grace community Church. I own nothing but I am deeply indebted to this pastor and his congregation. I’ve been ...

02/27/2021

Learn from the early church's greatest preacher. John of Antioch, later called "chrysostomos" ("golden mouth"), preached over 600 extant...

02/24/2021

Anyone read it?

John Piper presents a careful, reasoned study of the doctrine of election. He dissects Paul's argument to highlight the picture of God an...