Sentences with phrase «about calvin»

Hi Shannan... I'm Dawn, Lucy's Mom Just visited you blog... and no need to think any longer about Calvin and Lucy:)... what a cutie!

What do you think about Calvin Ayre starting his own mining operation dedicated to BCH?

What do you think about Calvin Ayre acquiring Coingeek.org?

About Calvin Bowden: Calvin Bowden worked many years with juvenile delinquents, adult criminals, law enforcement officials and members of the state and federal judiciary as a probation / parole officer.

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Clearly, the screenwriters — Deadpool duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick — have determined we need to talk about Calvin, a metaphor in plain sight for all those back - row dimbulbs who couldn't quite parse the significance of John Hurt's chest bursting open in Alien.

My favorite thing about Calvin Klein's is their underwear and bras, they are just so cozy!

They've both done quite a bit of sewing before, both at my side and on their own (I wrote about Calvin's first foray here).

Also if that's what your worried about they might be excited about Calvin Ridley on draft day but when he turns out to be yet another first round wr bust «which he will» you won't be as excited.

I care not a whit about Calvin's, Arminius», Wesley's or you - name - it's systematic categorization of Christianity, or whiling away my days arguing over which system is right and which is not.

So when you talk about Calvin, talk about Knox and Luther.

Encyclopedia articles about Calvin feature a fairly predictable cluster of terms still associated with his name: strict, moralistic, legalistic, authoritarian, rigorous, rigid, severe, cold, logical, systematic, biblicist, theocratic, dictatorial and austere.

When I read about Calvin and others ideas on what Gods Word says, the Arminian, Lytheran, Wesleyan, Unitarian and various Church denominations and their interpretations, particularly when they hang their whole idea on one part of the Bible to prove how right they are, it affirms what I have always thought since before I was saved by God as well as after that amazing act of grace on His part, that man values and honors the mind far above the heart.

Arminius was raised as a Calvinist and only had good things to say about Calvin's writings.

For those who didn't know much about Calvin, what are your initial impressions from this brief account?

(And conversely, what do you appreciate most about Calvin?)

Say what you will about Calvin's theology, he was not for sale.

I wrote earlier in the week about Calvin Klein CEO Steve Schiffman, who disclosed plans to bring back iconic pitchwoman Brooke Shields.

Not exact matches

By the time Paul Clark and Frye's husband come out, it's about 9:30 a.m. «Services like Calvin's is what keeps families together,» says Shelia Clark.

«Devastating news about Avicii, a beautiful soul, passionate and extremely talented with so much more to do,» said Calvin Harris.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

[84] John Calvin «had grave doubts about its value.»

Calvin has excited a variety of responses, both from those who read him and from those who only read about him.

However, I was definitely confused and also uninformed about the implications or logical conclusions of Calvinism, such as the fact that if Calvinism is true, God is the author of sin, since He, according to Calvin, predetermined every single little thing that has ever happened in history, including the sins of every man, including Adam!

BUT they usually don't seem to realize or want to talk about the fact that ideas have consequences, and that believing or not believing in the ideas of Calvin has a major impact upon our daily walk and the way we view God, ourselves, and the people in our world.

Usually, if you disagree with a Calvinist on the meaning of a particular Bible verse, rather than deal with the exegetical evidence that was prevented about the verse, they will say that your understanding is wrong, because it disagrees with what John Calvin, John Piper, or John MacArthur teaches (or some other Calvinist).

Yet many American evangelicals are ambivalent about engaging» as Calvin urged» with social and political matters.

Calvin most specifically talks about it.

Certain of Calvin's tropes for sin, most notably his descriptions of the defiling and polluting power of sin, feed gender stereotypes about sexual purity that unfairly blame and shame women's bodies as the source of sin.

Here is what Piper, MacArthur, Sproul, and Calvin had to say about those passages.

With these ground rules about sin - talk in place, Jones tests different aspects of Calvin's doctrine of sin.

So indeed, if Calvin's words about depravity are the truth, then no man can ever be certain that he has read and understood the Scriptures, including Calvin.

My concern here is that WTS and other Reformed institutions are elevating Calvin's theological interpretation of God to the point that it is understood to be a comprehensive explanation of God, the only «right» way of thinking about Him and worshipping Him.

Matthew J. Tuininga, assistant professor of moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, voiced the concerns of many about Obergefell's potentially far - reaching implications:

So I'll be speaking at Calvin College tonight (April 10) at 7 p.m. in the Chapel about my Year of Biblical Womanhood.

Either the doxological core of what makes a congregation will be subordinated to information communication (preaching as lecturing: «What John Calvin thought about this text was...»), to moralizing, and to posturing («See, this is how to perform the liturgy with real ritual expertise»).

It's not about John Calvin or the persecution of the Anabaptist or those «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirts.

Did I not know about the Inquisition, and about John Calvin's standing by with assent as Geneva burned the heretic Servetus four centuries ago?

Here, for example, is what John Calvin wrote about Genesis 12:1 - 3:

What do you wish the rest of us knew about Reformed theology that's bigger than just Calvin, Five Points, etc?

Just wondering about «all who had previously opposed John Calvin either fled Geneva or were rounded up and executed.»

Nevertheless, Calvin remained optimistic about the recovery of nature as a reliable source of the knowledge of God for believers.

Certainly, there are many things I appreciate about John Calvin, Jacobus Arminius, Martin Luther, and the other Reformers, but I have too many differences with the main theological arguments of each man to be comfortable identifying myself with the theological systems that bear their names.

The most revolutionary alteration in religious art came with the sweeping changes in sacrament and liturgy brought about by the 16th - century Reformers, especially Calvin and Zwingli.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

With the Protestants it was, in most countries, Luther or Calvin, but England became Protestant by the action of Henry the Eighth, and who in the 19th Century knew or cared about his theological view?

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

When I was on the faculty of Calvin College, I helped to arrange a special evening lecture on campus by my friend Virginia Mollenkott, who had recently come out publicly about her lesbian orientation.

John Calvin has a reputation as a stern dogmatist, but he said about God, «His essence indeed is incomprehensible, utterly transcending all human thought.»

While I usually enjoy First Things» sense of salon, the poem about John Calvin («Visiting Geneva,» February 2009) seemed cruel, forced, and needlessly provocative.