Today is Reformation Sunday – the day we remember when the great truths of God’s word – salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, revealed in Scripture alone – were rediscovered during a period called the Reformation.

Attributed to the work of Martin Luther, the Reformation began with him, but was often solidified and cemented by the second generation of reformers, men like John Calvin.

Calvin is often connected, and often in a pejorative way, with Calvinism, his great writing called ‘The Institutes’, and the straw-man theology that is often mis-labelled ‘predestination’. But, at the heart of Calvin’s life work is the ‘glory of God’ – the unavoidable and eternal significance of God for all life and truth and reality, revealed in Jesus Christ and spoken in God’s word. For Calvin, this was the heart of all things.