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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

Thomas A. Dorsey, Reformed Theologian?

July 5, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer Tagged With: Catechism, Heidelberg, Lord's Prayer, Precious Lord Take My Hand, Temptation, Thomas A. Dorsey, Trials

Role Models in Forgiveness

June 7, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 1 Comment

“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 […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: definition of forgiveness, heidelberg catechism, Lord's Prayer, theology

For All Our Physical Needs

May 30, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

They had always wanted a boat — and now they had it.  They had always wanted to be in the open ocean — and now they were out there. They had never actually wanted a storm — but now they had one of those too. The pleasure of rolling on steady swells became pitching and […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer Tagged With: Catechism, Daily bread, Heidelberg, Lord's Prayer, Prayer

Thy Will! No, No, MINE! No, THINE!

May 22, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 12 Comments

“It’s God’s will,” she said. “God told me this is what I am supposed to do.” I knew she wasn’t going to like it. I knew her and I knew what she was stepping into, and it was not a match. Fast forward two weeks. “It didn’t work out,” she said. Change of course. Back […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: Catechism, God's will, Heidelberg, heidelberg catechism, Lord's Prayer

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