Commemorating a Reformer

Is everyone as tired of all the adulation of Michael Jackson from the media as I am? Maybe it's time to turn off the television and just look back at some people who have gone on, but who have made a real positive difference in the life of society and of the church too. One such person was John Calvin and today, July 10th, is his 500th birthday!

Illustration by Krieg Barrie, courtesy of World Magazine. All rights reserved

Here are a few comments on Calvin that were posted today by some that I like to follow on Twitter:

Albert Mohler: Reading Bruce Gordon's massive new work on John Calvin, whose 500th birthday is today. http://bit.ly/owo5Z

John Piper: CALVIN: WHY WE EXIST: “Set before [man], as the prime motive of his existence, zeal to illustrate the glory of God."

The best 128 page biography of John Calvin only $2 just today at Desiring God. The first one I ever read. http://ow.ly/gZ9T

Tom Ascol: Happy Calvin's birthday--one benefit of being in Indonesia...we get it first

Jason Smathers: Reading Calvin the Evangelist, thanks @hereiblog for the link: http://bit.ly/2qknkJ

Paul Edwards: How different the church would be today were it not for 500 years of John Calvin. In honor of his 500th birthday I say, "Soli Deo Gloria!