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The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water. Kevin DeYoung

Water Bath Like Gospel Refreshing Cool

We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material. Kevin DeYoung

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others. Kevin DeYoung

God Day Me Every Day People Obligation Sometimes Guilt Sense Live Every Saved Other AIDS Others Our Our Lives Say Put Over Crushing Because Terror Question Yes Bunch Where Ask Low-Level Whole Now Lives Right Things Universal Here Christians Need

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads. Kevin DeYoung

God Myself People Wonderful Think Carelessness OK Kids Out Parental Determinism Push He Instill Hairs Heads Terms Knows Sovereignty Going Want Dose Turn Us Your Many Right Buttons

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white. Kevin DeYoung

Home School Church White Skin Blacks Entirely Color Almost Equal Were Discriminate Taught Should Skin Color Whites Even Based

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation. Kevin DeYoung

Prayer Church Preparation Thoughtful Leading Publicly Deserves

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun. Martin Chemnitz

Christ Blessed Eating Divided Nevertheless Becomes Hand Offered Begun Bread Which Meaning Body Apostles Received

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother. Martin Chemnitz

God Faith Nature Man Christ Made First Ought Our Neighbor Has-Been Brother Lay He First Place Been Hold Place Which

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. Martin Chemnitz

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. Mary Baker Eddy

Prayer Experience Blessings Always Ask Us Teaches Receive

Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Mary Baker Eddy

Truth Truth Is Immortal Mortal Error

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. Mary Baker Eddy

Death Will Brought Disappear Disappearance Sin

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. Mary Baker Eddy

Art Religion Man Would More Because Quarrel His Than

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. Mary Baker Eddy

Truth God Science Law Accident Christianity Scientific Becomes Then

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. Mary Daly

Women Power Had Naming Stolen Us

I hate the Bible. I always did. Mary Daly

Bible Hate Always Did

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground. Mary Daly

Work Creative Complete New Breaks Ground Creative Work

Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess. Mary Daly

Future Time Women Space Rule Everywhere Outer Outer Space Allegedly More Writers Beyond Most Been Role Get Space And Time Patriarchy Which Far Create Even Appears Imaginative

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know. Mary Daly

Out Studied Study Know Piety Because Wanted Theology

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. Mary Daly

Living Dimensions Boundary Different Patriarchy Theory

I was honestly a Catholic. Mary Daly

Honestly Catholic

Radical feminism is still threatening. Mary Daly

Feminism Radical Threatening Still

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. Michael Horton

Christ Our Only Sacrament Also Baptism Body Communion Union

No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves. Michael Horton

God Character You Trust Experience Yourself Fall Our Ourselves Has-Been Inside More No-One Part Since Look Within Been Than Authoritative Taught Themselves Even

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