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“Pursuing godliness without also pursuing biblical truth is a sure-fire way to remain in spiritual infancy (Eph. 4:14). The”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

“The Reformers understood justification to be purely preached when the Word is "rightly handl[ed]" (2 Tim. 2:15). A part of using the Word properly involves recognizing that it has two elements: law and gospel. The law is to be preached in all its terror, while the gospel is to be preached in all its comfort as that which the law cannot do (Rom. 8:3-4; CD, 3/4.6). Simply put, the Reformers taught us to preach Christ crucified (1 Cor. 1:23). If a church preaches any other "gospel," whether it is explicitly faith plus works or some insidious version of "get in by faith, stay in by obedience," it is not in conformity with the "teaching of Christ" (2 John 9) but with that of
an antichrist counterfeit. Anything other than the doctrine of justification soles fide is what Paul termed "a different gospel" (Gal. 1:6), which brings with it an eternal anathema (Gal. 1:8-9).”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

“While we carry the good news to the poor, only God can grant repentance and faith, and this relieved missionaries and evangelists of either despair on the one hand or proud triumphalism on the other.”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Planting, Watering, Growing: Planting Confessionally Reformed Churches in the 21st Century

“what benefit does retaining the clause, He descended into hell, bring to us? In a word, this clause is an essential part of the doctrine of the Christian church as well as the experience of its members. John Calvin spoke of its essential nature for doctrine when he said what this clause asserts in the Apostles’ Creed is “a matter of no small moment in bringing about redemption.” He continued to say that, “a place must be given to it, as it contains the useful and not-to-be-despised mystery of a most important matter.” To those with scruples about this clause, Calvin said, “It will soon be made plain how important it is to the sum of our redemption: if it is left out, much of the benefit of Christ’s death will be lost.”1”
― Daniel Hyde, In Defense of the Descent: A Response to Contemporary Critics

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― Daniel R. Hyde, Grace Worth Fighting For: Recapturing the Vision of God's Grace in the Canons of Dort

“Pray that he may forgive them and by his Spirit unite them with him in Christ Jesus and fulfill and confirm his own institution of baptism. Pray that he may regenerate them, that he may kill, crucify, and subdue the old Adam, the corrupt nature they have received from you. Pray that he may cleanse them and renew them after his image in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, that he may strengthen them by his grace so that as they grow up they may resist and overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil and serve the Lord in newness of life and the comfort of the Holy Spirit all the days of their lives.28”
― Daniel R Hyde, The Nursery of the Holy Spirit: Welcoming Children in Worship

“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose, and all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.'
-William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

“I'm first a Christian, next a Catholic, then a Calvinist, fourth a Paedobaptist and finally a Presbyterian. I cannot reverse the order.”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

“Today, many Protestant churches describe themselves as evangelical, but they have drifted far from the positions of the original Protestants. They still reject the pope, but the fact that many of them are governed by a pope-like, charismatic, and visionary leader calls out for protest and reformation.”
― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

“When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found.
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― Daniel R. Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church