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Looking to the past for outstanding Bible-based, Christ-centered, and life-changing preaching, Dr. Steven J. Lawson focuses on sixteenth-century Geneva, Switzerland. It was there that John Calvin ministered for decades as a faithful shepherd to a flock of believers. Here is an intimate portrait of Calvin the preacher-the core beliefs that determined his preaching style, the steps he took to...

For this reason, Calvin wrote in his last will and testament, “I have always faithfully propounded what I esteemed to be for the glory of God.”2 This was his highest aim. John Piper writes: “I think this would be a fitting banner over all of John Calvin’s life and work—zeal to illustrate the glory of God. The essential meaning of John Calvin’s life and preaching is that he recovered a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.”3 Not surprisingly, this commitment to God’s glory heavily influenced
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