Resources for Limping Along the Path
TOOLS FOR THE JOURNEY
- Chapter 3 of A Legacy of Sovereign Joy by John Piper. You will find a PDF download here (go to page 115). This book is available for personal use courtesy of John Piper and desiringgod.org
- A complete collection of John Calvin's Commentaries on mosty of the books of the Bible is available at CCEL.org
- An easy to use version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is found also at CCEL.org
- Biblegateway.com provides a complete online Bible in a variety of translations.
- Need to know a little more about John Calvin himself? There are short biographies here and here.
- This is a nice interpretive piece from the PCUSA Office of Theology and Worship
Definitions of Reformed Faith
- From "Presbyterian 101" at the PCUSA website
- Chapter 2 of the Form of Government, PCUSA, offers a summary of our confessional faith. (Note that this is a PDF document. Please go to pages 31 and 32)
- At least three PCUSA Presbyteries have adopted "Essential Tenets" statements: Santa Barbara (click on "Essential Tenets"), San Diego and Beaver-Butler (Scroll down to Denominational Concerns Task Force and then to "Essentials of the Faith).
John Calvin in the News:
- A Rhodes Scholar finds a personal faith in Christ through reading the Institues
- Time Magazine on The New Calvinsim(#3 of Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now)
- Reformed City from World Magazine
- One of many you will see this summer. This from the AP. When it begins with "(he) used dictatorial means…" you know you're in for a ride. Not all bad, though.
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