🚨Pre-Orders are open for Issue 2 of John Calvin's Illustrated Institutes!
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This is where our adventure gets really exciting! Calvin is about to show us how God reveals himself most clearly-through his Word, the Bible.
Think about it like this: God revealed his power through creation, but then he gave us something even better so we could actually know him personally. Imagine squinting at everything because you can't see clearly. Then you put on glasses, and everything suddenly comes into focus. The Bible is our pair of glasses.
Creation is amazing, but it's like a teacher who can only point at things without explaining them. In the Bible, God actually speaks directly to us, telling us his name, his promises, and his plan to rescue us.
Are you ready to dive into Scripture with Calvin and discover the most incredible treasure of all-truly knowing God through his Word?
Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in Oxford on October 16, 1555. Their crime? Refusing to renounce their Protestant faith.
It is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs that while the flames rushed upon them, Latimer encouraged Ridley with the words, "Be of good cheer, Mr. Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
“No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.”
― Charles Hodge
I've never been this excited to announce a project before: my first kid's book is coming out this Fall! Illustrated by the amazing @joehox and published by @prpbooks, this book introduces young readers to the paradoxical beauty of grace, the cross, & life made right in Christ.
"We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own."
- John Calvin “Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans,” Translated and Edited by John Owen
"The Lord, in His very love and faithfulness, will not, and cannot, let us go on in backsliding but He will visit us with stripes, to bring us back to Himself!" - George Müller
We’re giving away a 2-book bundle containing issue #1 and issue #2 of John Calvin’s Illustrated Institutes to ten people!
Read the details and enter here: https://t.co/i3flJ3qrxm
A hymn by Horatius Bonar
Upon a Life I have not lived,
Upon a Death I did not die,
Another’s Life; Another’s Death:
I stake my whole eternity.
Not on the tears which I have shed;
Not on the sorrows I have known:
Another’s tears; Another’s griefs:
On them I rest, on them alone.
Jesus, O Son of God, I build
On what Thy cross has done for me;
There both my death and life I read;
My guilt, my pardon there I see.
Lord, I believe; O deal with me
As one who has Thy Word believed!
I take the gift, Lord, look on me
As one who has Thy gift received.
“What think ye of Christ? All men ought to think of Christ, because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God, through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man, through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved."
—J.C. Ryle, A Christmas Question
"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
—Romans 10: 14-15