Graham Heslop

If you are a Christian then there is a good chance you have heard the reproach: ‘Don’t speak against the Lord’s anointed.’ You might even have received this stinging rebuke yourself, after a careless comment about some ‘man of God’. "Whatever he teaches, it seems the ‘Lord’s anointed’ simply cannot be challenged." At face value, it’s a rebuke dripping with…

Following the success of an earlier edition of his Institutes, John Calvin addressed King Frances I in the preface to a 1535 French edition. This preface was mostly an appeal for the king to bring an end to the Roman Catholic persecution of French Protestants. So, under a few headings, Calvin answers charges that were being levelled against the continental Reformers, ranging from…