Grantian Florilegium

The Christian king of Wessex, Alfred the Great, defeated the pagan Viking warlord Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandun on this day in 878....

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. The ship of prayer m...

I first began to seriously read and study the life and work of Thomas Chalmers a quarter of a century ago. When I was in graduate schoo...

In 2 Corinthians the Apostle Paul offers an extended exhortation on stewardship: “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, an...

By the 16th century virtually no one disagreed on the fact that the West needed to be reformed. What they disagreed on was what that refo...

Patrick Hamilton and George Wishart first proclaimed the doctrines of the Reformation in Scotland. Both men were gifted scholars, belove...

We didn’t get TULIP, the Five Points of Calvinism, from Calvin. Oh sure, the doctrines can be found in his magisterial Institutes of Chris...

It was never the intention of Heinrich Bullinger that the Second Helvetic Confession be made public. The successor to Ulrich Zwingli in Zu...

The Heidelberg Catechism, first published in 1563, has been used by Christians around the world ever since and with the Belgic Confession ...

The Belgic Confession, published in 1561, was a clear, concise, and uncompromised declaration of Reformed faith. King Philip II had unle...