The Biggest Story | Part Two

The Biggest Story | Part Two

The Biggest Story is a book for young and old alike. While our regular book of the month fellowships take place after a Sunday evening service and are only for those who have completed the book, we are so excited about this one that we are going to do something extra...
Friday Findings—June 24

Friday Findings—June 24

4 Ways to Reach a Child’s Heart “This is my simple agenda to ensure I am actively and intimately involved in the lives of my children: Read, Pray, Work, Play.” There is No Faith So Little That It Is Not Saving “No matter your weakness, God is God. And no matter your...
Jeremiah Burroughs…. Yet Speaking

Jeremiah Burroughs…. Yet Speaking

What is the Gospel of Christ? It is the good tidings that God has revealed concerning Christ…. All mankind was lost in Adam and became the children of wrath, and was put under the sentence of death. God, though He left His fallen angels and has reserved them in the...
1537

1537

Publication of  “Thomas Matthew’s” Bible. This Bible, printed in Antwerp less than a year after the martyrdom of Tyndale, was the first English Bible to be officially licensed for legal distribution in England. With his dying breath, Tyndale had...
Community Is Not Optional

Community Is Not Optional

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. (Hebrews 10:24–25) It is easy to provoke...
And I Quote—June 20

And I Quote—June 20

The message of biblical Christianity is not “God loves me, period,” as if we were the object of our own faith. The message of biblical Christianity is “God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all...
The Biggest Story | Part Two

The Biggest Story | Part One

Our next book of the month will be, The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden. Far more than a children’s story, this beautiful book is a powerful and profound retelling of the core of the big story of Scripture. Even though is is...
Friday Findings—June 24

Friday Findings—June 17

What Is Self-Discipline? “If we are to exercise self-control, we must relinquish the control of our lives to Jesus Christ. Here is a paradox of the Christian life: We must give up the control of self if we would gain self-control. May God enable us to exercise...
Peter Riedemann… Yet Speaking

Peter Riedemann… Yet Speaking

As so much has been said about love so far, we must show what it is like in order that it is better understood, that one may not think he has love when it is only an illusion. Love cannot hide itself because its nature is light. It must shine and show itself in active...
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1536

Still only 27 years old, John Calvin publishes the first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. This first edition was quite compact. Over the next 23 years Calvin would repeatedly enlarge and restructure this work, culminating in the massive edition of...