In the Sanctuary : Expository Sermons on the Lord's Prayer

by Herman Hoeksema

Herman Hoeksema delivered a series of expository sermons on the Lord's Prayer over the radio in the early 1940's. Because of their popularity these sermons were printed. That original book has long been out of print. Now with some slight editorial revisions In the Sanctuary is again being published. While these sermons are expository in nature, yet they read like meditations. The author begins each chapter with a lucid explanation of the petition; he concludes by setting forth the spiritual disposition necessary for praying that petition. In doing so, he draws the reader into the deeply reverent attitude required to enter God's presence, and the reader is compelled to exclaim, "Lord, so teach me always to pray in accordance with Thy will!"

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965), a Dutch Reformed theologian, was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the USA in 1904. After studying at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he began his ministerial career in the Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids - at that time one of the largest reformed congregations in the United States.

Hoeksema was one of the principal founders of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC). Founded as a separate denomination of Reformed churches in 1924, the PRC stand in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Their origin as a denomination was the doctrinal controversy over "common grace" within the Christian Reformed Church in the early 1920s, occasioned by that church's adoption of the doctrine of common grace as official church dogma. The result of the controversy was that several ministers with their congregations were put out of the Christian Reformed Church. These men then established the Protestant Reformed Churches.

The newly-formed PRC denomination established the Protestant Reformed Seminary where Hoeksema served as professor of theology for 40 years.

Reviews

[Hong Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

A systematic study of the Lord's Prayer. Hoeksema delivered a series of expository sermons on this subject over the radio in the early 1940s. Readers will be pleased to find his insights thoroughly biblical and well-developed, with a warm pastoral tone to his writing. Highly recommended.

[Elliot Ensink · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provides beautiful insight into the simple yet profound words of the Lord's prayer, teaching us that prayer is an act of humble worship.