Praying to Our Father (Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 46; Isaiah 63:7-64:12) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Theological Basis
II. The Personal Conviction
Herman Hoeksema on Lord’s Day 46: “At the beginning of our prayers the Lord leads us in the marvelous way of his grace and through the entrance of his sovereign election into the presence of his heavenly majesty. We can boast to man of a free will whereby we have accepted our sonship. But even before we utter the first two words of the Lord’s prayer, this boast dies on our lips, and we humbly confess, ‘Our Father in heaven, it is none of self, but all of thee’” (The Perfect Prayer, p. 46).