• Calvin's Heart Aflame

  Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 26, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Emotions

  Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

CALVIN'S HEART AFLAME

We are emotional beings, and it is unlikely that we would check our emotions at the door when we enter the sanctuary. Our great forebear in the faith, John Calvin, chose as his personal emblem a hand extending upward to God and in that hand a heart aflame. And beneath the image he inscribed the words, "My heart I offer to you, O Lord, promptly and sincerely."