Christ is Risen!

Christ is Risen!

He is Risen indeed.

Winter Lover’s Lament

I love winter; and this one has been a dozy. But walking to class this morning in -22 convinced me that I am looking forward to spring…-22 in mid March is even a little extreme for me.

Calvin on the Institutes

Such is the arrangement of the Institutes which may be thus summed up: Man being at first created upright, but afterward being not partially but totally ruined, finds his entire salvation out of himself in Christ, to whom being united by the Holy Spirit freely given without any foresight of future works, he thereby obtains a double blessings, i.e., full imputation of righteousness, which goes along with us even to the grave, and the commencement of sanctification, which daily advances till at length it is perfected in the day of regeneration or resurrection of the body, and this, in order that the great mercy of God may be celebrated in the heavenly mansions throughout eternity.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers Inc., 2008, p. xliii.