Throughout his long ministry in Geneva, Calvin was a tireless preacher. He spoke to a specific congregation at a particular moment, and even so his sermons have traveled well across both time and space.

God's word is not bound by history or geography, and Calvin's French has a robust plainness and directness that crosses barriers of language and culture with relative ease. Of the hundred and one sermons he preached on the Pastoral Letters in 1554 and 1555, the thirty on Paul's second letter to Timothy are gathered here. Calvin preaching rather than Calvin writing, which is a different experience.