Let’s call this column “Farewell to Calvin.”  I’ll make a reference to him in at least one more sermon and reading and writing about him has given me a far greater appreciation for the sixteenth century reformer in Geneva.  But it’s time to move on.

 
And moving on is the lesson I will most remember from [...]

 Twice on Sunday afternoon I ran across the subject of right brain/left brain differences.  I think it’s a lesson on prayer.

“Praying by the Rules” (Genesis 18:16-33), August 9, 2009
Prayer joins heaven and earth.

Much of what I have written or said in the last few weeks about John Calvin may have led you to believe that I agree with Charles Spurgeon, the nineteenth century Baptist preacher of London, who said, “The longer I live the clearer does it appear that John Calvin’s system is the nearest to perfection.”
I [...]

I did something yesterday I don’t think I have ever done before.  I started the sermon with a disclaimer that it probably wasn’t going to be that profound.  “If you want to hear a really good sermon, come back last week.”