{"id":145456,"date":"2026-05-28T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145456"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:48:07","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-john-calvin-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145456","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of John Calvin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sovereign and holy God, who didst bring John Calvin from a study of legal systems to understand the godliness of thy divine laws as revealed in Scripture: Fill us with a like zeal to teach and preach thy Word, that the whole world may come to know thy Son Jesus Christ, the true Word and Wisdom; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, ever one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> May 27, 1564:<br>John Calvin, leading Reformer and theologian, dies in Geneva. A principal figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation, Calvin profoundly shaped Reformed theology through his preaching, church reforms, and writings, most notably Institutes of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0x2uTMJgDA\">pic.twitter.com\/0x2uTMJgDA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u2627 Today in Christian History (@HistoricalRook) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HistoricalRook\/status\/2059608304700002620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sovereign and holy God, who didst bring John Calvin from a study of legal systems to understand the godliness of thy divine laws as revealed in Scripture: Fill us with a like zeal to teach and preach thy Word, that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145456\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,188,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145462,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145456\/revisions\/145462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}