Over the next number of blogs I want to offer quotations from various books which I hope will challenge and encourage you. The topics are of quite a wide range, so I hope the shotgun approach works. Today we read from Calvin’s wonderful little work, The Necessity of Reforming the Church. In it, Calvin defends the need for the Reformation to Charles V, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He has many reasons for his defense and one of them is the need to reform worship; to br

Israel‘s transgression — Gentile salvation — Israel’s jealousy/salvation — Gentile blessing

What does it mean to be a Jew if it doesn’t gain salvation from God?

The doctrine of God’s unconditional individual election / predestination unto salvation is ever-present in Scripture.