This was originally a stand-alone chapter from Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian religion, published in 1552 as a pocket-sized French edition. The Banner of Truth has now made Robert White’s translation available in an attractive gift edition, also pocket-sized. Calvin’s intention was to provide a basic manual for French Christians ‘hungering and thirsting for…
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People have been executed as heretics for writing books like this! Yet on every page Hardyman expounds the fundamental scriptural truth that there is no sacred-secular divide, and he does so with simplicity and sparkle. The first third of the book explores the biblical theology (unfolding revelation in the Bible) of God’s purposes for humankind,…
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Christians often split their lives into two clear and distinct sections – the secular and the sacred. The sacred is whatever pertains to their faith (church, Bible reading, prayer etc.) while the secular takes up everything else (work, leisure etc.). As a result, the sacred days are (to use Hardyman’s term) ‘glory days’ while…
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