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The 2 Keys to Life as You Were Meant to Live It!

January 22, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen 10 Comments

You can find a lot of free advice out here in the blogosphere. Everybody wants to get something — anything, apparently — that will make their life the way they want it to be. The way they need it to be. The way they long for it to be. Christians have a name for that […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Saints, Theology Tagged With: Blessed life, Greatest Commandment, heidelberg catechism, Law of God, Love your neighbor, Loving God, St. Augustine, Summary of the law

Why Do Christians Talk So Much about “Blood” and “Spirit”? (The Baptism of the Lord via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 70)

January 13, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen 3 Comments

This last Sunday in the Church year was “The Baptism of the Lord.” Jesus went down to the Jordan and had John baptize him. That act kicked off his public ministry. It also convinced Christians that we too should be baptized. As our bodies are washed with water, so God washes away all the guilt that […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Baptism, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, heidelberg catechism, The Baptism of the Lord, Washed in the Blood

The Saints; or “What’s a Nice Reformed Boy Like Me Doing on a Topic Like This?” (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 30)

January 7, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen 5 Comments

I wonder sometimes whether readers think it is odd that I blog on a classic Reformed text like the Heidelberg Catechism one day and on saints of the Catholic and Orthodox world the next. From Calvin’s time onward, a good deal of Reformed ink has been spilled ridiculing Catholic devotion to the saints. Take my […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Saints, Theology Tagged With: Benedict of Nursia, heidelberg catechism, St Dominic, Teresa of Avila

My Best Kept Secrets of 2013: The Posts You Didn’t See

January 3, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

In my first year of blogging there were some amazing days when posts got liked and shared and commented on. There were also days of slogging away with nobody looking in. Sometimes the problem was clearly bad timing: It was hard to lure in readers in the busy days of December, and if I posted […]

Filed Under: Theology, Uncategorized Tagged With: heidelberg catechism

The Holy Name of Jesus (via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 29)

January 1, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

It is January 1, the eighth day of Christmas. I suppose what comes to mind most quickly is the strange gift of “eight maids a milking.” (How on earth were they wrapped?) In the Anglican communion, and in some past periods for the Catholic Church, this is the day to remember “The Holy Name of […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Bible, Circumcision of Jesus, heidelberg catechism, Holy Name of Jesus

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