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This Week at F.P.C.
WED: Prayer & Praise
7:00 p.m.
Next
Sunday
Nursery Volunteers
during S.S. July 5: Kathy and Bethany Scholten
Jr. Choir practice 9:30-9:45
a.m. 1-1:30 p.m. on July 5.
Church-wide Congregational Dinner
following morning worship on July 5. Bring a dish to share and
stay for lunch. Everyone is welcome!
Our second service on July 5 will begin
at 2:00 p .m. (No 6:00 p .m. service July 5.)
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AUGUST 3-7
Sermons
“Holiness is not the laborious acquisition of virtue from
without, but the expression of the Christ-life from within.” – JWC
Wand
THE FACES AT FAITH
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Calvinism in America
by Loraine Boettner
“If the average American citizen were asked, who was the founder of
America, the true author of our great Republic, he might be puzzled to
answer. We can imagine his amazement at hearing the answer given to this
question by the famous German historian, Ranke, one of the profoundest
scholars of modern times. Says Ranke, ‘John Calvin was the virtual
founder of America.’”
D’Aubigne, whose history of the Reformation is a classic, writes:
“Calvin was the founder of the greatest of republics. The Pilgrims who
left their country in the reign of James I, and landing on the barren
soil of New England, founded populous and mighty colonies, were his
sons, his direct and legitimate sons; and that American nation which we
have seen growing so rapidly boasts as its father the humble Reformer on
the shore of Lake Leman.”
Dr. E.W. Smith says, “These revolutionary principles of republican
liberty and self-government, taught and embodied in the system of
Calvin, were brought to America, and in this new land where they have
borne so mighty a harvest were planted, by whose hands? – the hands of
the Calvinists. The vital relation of Calvin and Calvinism to the
founding of the free institutions of America, however strange in some
ears the statement of Ranke may have sounded, is recognized and affirmed
by historians of all lands and creeds.” |