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A Little Bit Mysterious

May 3, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 5 Comments

I have always liked a mystery.  In my reading that has led me to enjoy Dorothy L. Sayers’ “Lord Peter Wimsey” novels and Robert B. Parker’s “Spenser” series. I blush to confess the vast number of hours I used to spend watching the various incarnations of Law and Order. Love of mystery also shapes my […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer Tagged With: Catechism, Father, Heaven, Heidelberg, Prayer, providence

Who You Talkin’ To?

April 25, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 11 Comments

“Why did Christ command us to call God ‘Father’?” That’s question 120 of the Heidelberg Catechism, the first in a series of ten on the phrases of the Lord’s Prayer. They asked the question 450 years ago, but it is still a good one — and timely now for reasons the authors never would have […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: Bible, Catechism, Father, Heidelberg, Jesus, Lord's Prayer, Prayer

Survey Says…

April 18, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 8 Comments

Quick quiz — or maybe it’s a riddle: What makes you patient when things go against you? thankful when things go well? and confident as you face all the unknowns of the future? Or maybe I should switch it around and make it a survey — something they could have used on the old game […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Catechism, Heidelberg, providence, Responsibility, Sovereignty

Simon Says: “What Do You Need?”

April 15, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

Last week I was blogging about the guidelines for prayer offered by the Heidelberg Catechism and I whizzed right by one that some may find troubling. When we pray, says the Catechism, we are supposed to ask “for everything God has commanded us to ask for.” It sounds like we are playing the spiritual version […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer Tagged With: Catechism, Heidelberg, Martin Luther, Prayer, theology

Putting The Pieces Together About Prayer

April 10, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 11 Comments

Some Christians can make prayer seem like bit of a puzzle.  Not that they portray prayer as confusing — far from it. They make it more like a jigsaw puzzle: once you get each piece in the right place (and they only fit one way) the picture emerges automatically. In the puzzle theory of prayer […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer Tagged With: Bible, Catechism, Heidelberg, Prayer, promises of God, theology

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