God’s Providence: May 24th at 9pm Eastern time we will be hosting an open webinar, “God’s Providence: The Symphony of Everything”. All are welcome to watch or participate in a good time of fellowship and discussion about this fascinating, often controversial, but biblically important topic. You may also enjoy reading these articles about the topic: Practical Sovereignty and Samuel Davies, and God’s Sovereign Good Pleasure.

Instructions about participation are given on our Online Discussions page. You can login to take part with your Facebook account and other social network IDs. [There is no charge for observing or for participating.]

There will be no Thursday evening webcast on the 17th. Our Director will be performing a special out of town wedding.

Recently: We thank the Southwest Florida Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America for recognizing the ministry of our Institute at their 87th called meeting. Our Executive Director, Bob Burridge, was recognized as “serving out of bounds” in this educational ministry. The next step is to fully fund our outreach and projects for the year ahead. If you are or know of one of those “big donors” who wants to have a financial part in the work of Christ’s Kingdom, you may be that answer to prayer we have been bringing before the Lord. This month saw a large spike in the use of our materials world-wide. We want to expand that even more.

There is a brief report about the Twin Lakes Fellowship conference which was held in Mississippi last month. It was very encouraging to meet some who are using our resources and to let others know about them. The conference was a great opportunity to fellowship with other servants of Christ’s Kingdom and to learn together from God’s word.

Romans Study 56 (Monday, May 14th) This week’s study is Good Counselors from Romans chapter 15:14-16. Biblical counsel is done by redeemed people admonishing one another as a family in Christ. Enabled by the Holy Spirit, and armed with God’s word, they persist, sometimes even in tears, to help even the weakest toward mature spiritually. Our love for one another is too dear, and our love for God is too overwhelming, to substitute superficial remedies for the real joy and peace promised to us in our Savior.

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God’s Word for God’s World

In the mid 1500′s Geneva became a gathering place for those who wanted to return Christianity to its biblical foundations. Under the leadership of John Calvin scholars, ministers, and concerned students gathered to compare all they believed and practiced with God’s word as preserved in Scripture.

The Genevan Institute for Reformed Studies was founded to continue that practice in our own period of history. Our desire is to apply God’s word to our own lives and to the world around us. Our goal is to reform (reshape) our lives to fit the mold that our Creator has given us in his written word.