The Expository Genius of John Calvin
In The Expository Genius of John Calvin, Dr. Steven J. Lawson delves
into the practices, commitments, and techniques that made John Calvin, the great
Reformer of the sixteenth century, such an effective preacher during his long
pastorate at Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Lawson
identifies thirty-two distinctives of Calvin's preaching, providing comments
from Calvin's writings, quotations from Reformation scholars, and examples from
Calvin's own sermons to reinforce his points. In the end, Dr. Lawson finds in
Calvin a strong model for expository preaching and calls on modern pastors to
follow the Reformer's example.
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Resolution 22: Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much hapiness, in the other world, as I possibly can, with all the power; might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of."
Former Pastor, Northampton Church
Northampton, Massachusetts