*** As we do every year, we will be breaking from the blog for a month after our April 3 post. Look for more content in May. Three quotes today (all for the same price) based on Romans 12:3-4, “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” In my sermon on this passage (which you can listen to here) I said this,

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