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Podcast Description

In a world obsessed with self-improvement and moral performance, John Calvin delivers a sobering and liberating diagnosis: apart from Christ, even our best virtues are tainted at the root. Continuing in this chapter, he examines the pollution that clings to every human work, the futility of hypocritical religion, the remaining imperfection in believers, and why our only lasting righteousness is found by faith in Christ alone.

Today’s Readings:

John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 3, Chapter 14, Sections 7–12

Augustine — The Confessions, Book X, Chapter X (Sections X–X)

Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part X, Question X (Articles X–X)

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