I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).