In our time of adult Sunday school, we interact with Calvin's use of Scripture to justify the role of the civil magistrate in maintaining the purity of doctrine in the church.

In our time of adult Sunday school we consider Calvin's argument in favor of the civil magistrates' care for the church in punishing heretics and examine it in light of Scripture.

In our sermon we hear our Lord's message to the church of Philadelphia, only one of two churches about whom the Lord has nothing negative to say.

In our time of adult Sunday school we consider the trial and execution of Michael Servetus in the city of Geneva and more broadly how church/state relations were thought of in the 16th century.

In our time of Sunday school we consider some of the men who labored alongside John Calvin in the company of pastors in Geneva.

In our sermon we will hear our Lord's message to the church of Sardis, which had a reputation for being alive, but was in fact dead.

In our time of adult Sunday school we consider some of the other ministers who served alongside John Calvin in Geneva and who comprised his company of pastors.

In our sermon we will hear of our Lord's message to the church of Thyatira, the longest of all seven messages. We will hear a stern warning against tolerating false teaching which corrupts good morals and an encouragement to hold fast to what we have in Christ until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.

In our sermon we hear our Lord's message to the church of Pergamum, where we find that they had been faithful in the face of persecution, but also compromising in matters of doctrine and life.

In our time of adult Sunday school we continue to consider John Calvin's reforms of the worship of the church in Geneva, many of which are continued in our church today.