…it is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains him from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending him. Calvin, J. (1997). Institutes of the Christian religion. Logos
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I have a confession: I’m no expert at love or relationships. I am going to speak on it anyway. Lew Smedes says, “There are two kinds of writers: smart ones and dumb ones. The smart kind write what they know. The dumb kind write in order to know. I am one of the dumb ones.” […]
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Martin Luther and John Calvin were more than theologians. They were organizers of new churches. The reformation was a time of great conflict in which theological loyalties became intermixed with political loyalties. New churches arose which attracted political and religious refugees who were not strangers to conflict. Thus, the early protestant churches were themselves filled […]