The biblical Calvinist rests his life and her life on the amazing love of the Father.

It was his love that sent his only begotten son into the world,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Biblical Calvinism is a warm Calvinism. It should result in deeper communion with our Lord.

Hello and welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Concluding his six-part series on Calvinism and the Christian life, Ian Hamilton now considers

the Trinitarian nature of Calvinism and the way John Owen masterfully expressed this communion with

God. Here's Dr. Hamilton, President of Westminster Presbyterian Theological

Seminary in the UK. I want to highlight and underline this note that Calvinism cultivates communion

with the triune God.

Calvinism has a profoundly trinitarian shape and content.

You cannot read the institutes of the Christian religion,

especially Calvin's magnum opus,

without being struck by how radically Trinitarian Calvin's instinctive Christian thinking actually is. But probably no one better express this communion with the

triune God than John Owen, the great 17th century English

pastor theologian. Many Christians only really know John Owen through the lens of works

like his six-volume mortification of sin, or volume 10,

the death of deaths and the death of Christ. And these are great volumes. But Owen is at his

best. And I actually think he would say this himself. When he's writing in volume one on the glory of Christ,

in volume two on communion with the triune God, and in volume three on the work of the Holy Spirit.

And I actually think that volume two of Owen's collected works,

where he dwells at some length on the believer's communion with the triune God, is the greatest

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