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Guest Post on Walk.Build.Proclaim: “What Language Shall I Borrow? How About the Psalms?”

July 16, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

My new blogospheric friend Tracy Dereszysnski-Dow very generously invited me to do a guest post on her blog “Walk.Build.Proclaim”.  I wrote on praying the Psalms as modeled by John Calvin.  Here’s how it starts: The medieval passion hymn “O Sacred Head” asks Jesus a great question: “What language shall I borrow to thank thee, dearest […]

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Prayer

Really?

July 12, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

This was in my in-box just now from the mother house of the Benedictine order. Maybe all that blogging about Benedict’s Rule paid off… Frankly it is a little surreal: I’m being followed by a 1500 year old monastery? If they are willing to read a Presbyterian seminary professor blogging about their remarkable founder they […]

Filed Under: Monasticism Tagged With: Benedict of Nursia, benedictine order, Monasticism, Monte Cassino

Feast Day of St. Benedict of Nursia

July 11, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

I was about to set off to university. My friends and I headed north for a week of camp sponsored by Young Life — it was at the extraordinary Malibu Club on Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia. They called the camp “College Prep” and the message was clear: We’d been Christians in high school, […]

Filed Under: Community, Monasticism, Saints Tagged With: Benedict of Nursia, community, Malibu Club, Mission, Monasticism, Prayer, Solitude, Young Life

Whose Kingdom? Whose Power? Whose Glory?

July 11, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

Martin Luther wrote on the Lord’s Prayer. A lot — it was his favorite guide to a richer prayer life, as I recently wrote in a guest post on Anita Mathias’ blog, and as I spent a chapter exploring in my book, Kneeling with Giants.  But there is one line of the prayer he never […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer, Theology, Uncategorized Tagged With: and the glory, Catechism, Heidelberg, Lord's Prayer, Martin Luther, Prayer, The kingdom, the power

Guest Post on Anita Mathias’ “Dreaming Beneath the Spires”

July 8, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

I was thrilled when award-winning essayist Anita Mathias asked me to do a guest post.  I wrote on Martin Luther’s approach to prayer, and the post starts out like this: Martin Luther, the catalyst of the Protestant Reformation, needed a shave.  And his barber, like the one I had when I had hair, liked to […]

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: Anita Mathias, Dreaming Beneath the Spires, Lord's Prayer, Martin Luther

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