Three things today …
Pray for the RBC Marriage Retreat this weekend. Pray that the gospel would blossom and bloom in our marriages. Pray that husbands and wives would love and forgive as they themselves have been loved and forgiven.
My friend Marcus Hanel (and some of his friends) have put together this event with Corey Hart and Jeremy Camp. It’s going down November 17. Check out the promo video and invite a friend to come with you.
http://vimeo.com/50309083
And here is a little reading from John Calvin. Don’t hate him just because he was (sort of) a Calvinist. He nails it here.
We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is “of him.” If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other. John Calvin (Inst. 2.16.19)