Here are my writings on the subject of knowing God, most of them come from my time reading Calvin’s Institutes during 2009 – the 500th anniversary of his birth.
Reflections on reading Calvin’s Institutes:
- Happy birthday Calvin!
- Is it for me?
- A week in John Calvin’s Institutes
- A month into Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Reflections on reading Book I
Articles on the Institutes:
- God knows you better than you know yourself (Book I:1)
- Knowledge of God as Creator (Book I:2)
- Can man live without God? (Book I:3)
- The mystery of providence (Book I:5 part B)
- Knowledge of God through obedience to the Word (Book I:6)
- The secret testimony of the Spirit (Book I:7)
- An argument for the credibility of scripture (Book I:8)
- Word and Spirit in harmony (Book I:9)
- The relational God (Book I:10)
- Images of the invisible God (Book I:11)
- You gotta serve somebody (Book I:12)
- The Triune God, part 1 (Book I:13)
- The Triune God, part 2
- A truth for all seasons (Book I: 17)
- A straight line with a crooked stick (Book I:18)
- The law of unintended consequences (Book II:4)
- Faith acquires what the law requires (Book II:5)
- One man to reverse the curse (Book II:6)
- The shadow and the substance (Book II:9)
- What if God was one of us? (Book II:12)
- And the Word became flesh (Book II:13)
- Two natures, distinct but united (Book II:14)
- The heavenly King and the earthly Church (Book II:15)
- The curse of the cross (Book II:16)
- The merit of Christ’s death (Book II: 17)