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“This Is the Whole Duty of Man”: A Reformed Guide to Private Devotion (3)

In today’s post we have the next section in the German Reformed Church’s “Guide to Private Devotion,” on the topic of the day’s duties.  Two of the Scripture sentences are from Ecclesiastes, a book that does indeed have much to say about a theology of vocation, including guidance as to how to weigh the ultimate […]

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“Dispel from My Soul the Clouds of Darkness”: A Reformed Guide to Private Devotion (1)

A couple of days ago, I posted the Litany from Schaff, Nevin, et al.’s A Liturgy, or, Order of Christian Worship, a book that shows that Reformed Christians have, or at least could have, a rich liturgical and devotional tradition with real and practical, rather than simply rhetorical, connections to the ancient church and the […]

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“And Finally to Beat Down Satan under Our Feet”: The Litany for the Reformed Churches

In 1858, a committee composed of Schaff, Nevin, and others published A Liturgy, or, Order of Christian Worship for the German Reformed Church. It contains a number of features that modern Presbyterian and Reformed Christians would do well to reflect on and recover as a regular part of worship. One of these is a section […]