Tag Archives: prayer

Sometimes the Prayer Book Just Makes Sense (sorry for having the word “just” so close to the thought of praying)

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 3, 2011

For those who resist watching videos like the one posted earlier today from “King of the Hill,” here is the text of Bobby’s prayer, which is a brilliant illustration of the enormity that happens when trying to put sober truths into vulgar words. I want to give a shout out to the man that makes… Read More→

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WWDED? (Defenders of Edwards)

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 2, 2011

So here I am, a revived Reformed Protestant, sitting in an average Presbyterian worship service and I am not comfortable. Granted, they are singing hymns and so not guilty of that strange insistence on psalm-singing that plagued Calvin and Knox. But these tunes and words just don’t resonate with my soul. Then there is the… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Keeping the Union Balls in the Air

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 1, 2010

So for my devotions this morning I used a prayer from Calvin and needed to pause to consider what I was requesting (I guess this an argument against forms). Calvin wrote (in French, of course): Grant, Almighty God, that since thou hast deigned in thy mercy to gather us to thy Church, and to enclose… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Christ’s Priestly Office

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 11, 2010

Priest is a strong and lovely word. There is no lovelier or sweeter name on earth. It is much better to hear that Christ is called “Priest”, than Lord, or any other name. Priesthood is a spiritual power which means no other than that the priest steps forth, and takes all the iniquities of the… Read More→

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Praying in Public

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 8, 2010

Since I grew up in a home where the mother passed out tracts with tips and even with fares for turnpike tolls, I will be forever scarred by an evangelical piety that was always in the “car sales” mode, always looking to make the deal. (For a particularly empathetic treatment of this piety – as… Read More→

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