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 […]
Whose Kingdom? Whose Power? Whose Glory?
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 […]
Guest Post on Anita Mathias’ “Dreaming Beneath the Spires”
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 […]
Thomas A. Dorsey, Reformed Theologian?
First off, “HOORAY!” and “THANKS!” for helping the blog to pass 4000 page views today! And now to the actual post… Give a good listen to Thomas A. Dorsey’s “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” (sung here by the great Mahalia Jackson) Here’s someone who knows that making each step of faith and faithfulness requires a […]
Role Models in Forgiveness
“Unforgivable!” That’s the cry when we are really hurting. I suspect sometimes it means “I can’t forgive that quite yet.” However, sometimes it sounds more like we are working with a confused definition of forgiveness. When I hear people talking about forgiveness it often sounds like they are thinking “Forgiveness means the wound in our […]
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