Posts by John Stasse (Page 6)

Preparation for Hearing the Word of God Preached Consciously cultivate fresh awareness that I will be confronted with the very words of the living God. Matt 4:4; 2 Tim 3:16; Isaiah 66:2; Heb 12:25; 1 Thess 2:13   Consciously repudiate by fresh repentance all that would hinder my joyful…

Five young seminary graduates were returning home to France after spending time in Geneva with John Calvin. Upon entering France they were arrested, and in the months that followed they corresponded often with Calvin. One letter, in March 1553, spoke of their blessing in suffering for Christ:

God has made us to be relational beings since we are made in the image of the relational God. Sin has distorted this reality as everything else about us. From the very first sin this was seen in husband and wife hiding from one another and both from God. Like Adam and Eve we know that sin causes…