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Lifting Up Our Hearts: 150 Selected Prayers from John Calvin

Calvin, John; Benge, Dustin W. (editor)

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John Calvin understood the importance of prayer to the Christian life and wrote extensively on the subject in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Now modern readers can come to a firmer grasp of how the Reformer viewed prayer by reading his actual prayers.

One of the greatest depositories for Calvin’s prayers is within his lectures on the Old Testament books of Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and the twelve Minor Prophets. Each lecture would end with a prayer that seemed extemporaneous and reflected, in retrospect, upon the text he had just taught.

Compiled in this volume are 150 of these prayers, arranged by subject and accompanied by the Scripture passage Calvin was expounding. These rich prayers of the great Reformer provide a valuable devotional tool to assist us as we lift up our hearts to God.

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  • ISBN
    9781601781932
  • Page Count
    293
  • Publisher
    Reformation Heritage Books
  • Publication Date
    October 2012

Endorsements (3)

“These prayers of Calvin collected by Dustin Benge are particularly rich in biblical and theological substance. They provide a mini–theology in themselves but also embody the wonder that a God of grace has opened up the way that sinners might enter with hope into His presence.”

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Tom J. Nettles

Professor of Historical Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Dustin Benge has done the church a great service by compiling this generous selection of prayers by the great Genevan Reformer, John Calvin. Extracted from his luminous Old Testament Commentaries, these fervent intercessions reveal the warm piety that accompanied this theological genius. Calvin’s personal logo was an open hand, holding a heart, extended upward to God with the words, ‘My heart I offer to Thee, Lord, promptly and sincerely.’ This book clearly demonstrates such singular devotion to God. Here is Calvin’s high doxology, arising upward from his high theology. And here is his exaltation of God, ascending from sound exegesis and exposition. By reading these prayers, I have no doubt but that your own heart will be likewise inflamed.”

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Steven J. Lawson

author, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

“These prayers of Calvin can be of great personal profit. A book to read and to practice repeatedly.”

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Herman J. Selderhuis

author, John Calvin: A Pilgrim’s Life

About the Author

John Calvin (1509–1564) was a pastor in Geneva, Switzerland, and a prominent leader during the Protestant Reformation.

Dustin W. Benge is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Jackson, Kentucky. He is currently a PhD candidate at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

Reformed Fellowship, Inc.

Lifting Up Our Hearts: 150 Selected Prayers from John Calvin

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Listen to a lecture by Dustin Benge entitled Calvin and His Prayers.
Source: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Publisher's Description

John Calvin understood the importance of prayer to the Christian life and wrote extensively on the subject in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Now modern readers can come to a firmer grasp of how the Reformer viewed prayer by reading his actual prayers.

One of the greatest depositories for Calvin’s prayers is within his lectures on the Old Testament books of Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and the twelve Minor Prophets. Each lecture would end with a prayer that seemed extemporaneous and reflected, in retrospect, upon the text he had just taught.

Compiled in this volume are 150 of these prayers, arranged by subject and accompanied by the Scripture passage Calvin was expounding. These rich prayers of the great Reformer provide a valuable devotional tool to assist us as we lift up our hearts to God.

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