HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN CALVIN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Wow! You don't look a day over 499! But, alas, your 500th birthday will pass like an obscure holiday to a select (elect) few.
Well, I for one required a bit of encouragement and peer pressure (in Christ) to celebrate if not remember John Calvin and his theological legacy, which has fallen upon disrepute ever since he lived here on earth.
Don't get me wrong: I know he was only a man. But in terms of historical and theological importance, Calvin is second only to the Apostle Paul, perhaps.
I am listening to a lecture by Albert Mohler on Ligonier.org called, "John Calvin: Preacher and Teacher."
In this recessionary economy and amidst much political and international uproar, we Christians can "retreat" and take refuge in the historic Christian faith, trusting afresh in Christ our strong tower of refuge, our God and King.
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