Too many Christians talk about God's presence like the weather. On the Heidelblog, I explain why I wrote A Christian's Pocket Guide to the Presence of God.

Daniel R. Hyde joins the Christ the Center podcast to discuss A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Presence of God (Christian Focus, 2026), tracing the theme from Eden’s garden sanctuary through the tabernacle, temple, exile, incarnation, church, and new creation. Scripture’s map of God’s presence leads not to a sacred location or spiritual sensation, but to a Person: Jesus Christ, the temple and glory of God among us.

Dr. Daniel R. Hyde answers twelve questions on Dutch Reformed history, theology, worship, and denominations.

A video introduction by Dr. Daniel Hyde on his newest book, A Christian's Pocket Guide to the Presence of God.

Daniel R. Hyde's new book from Christian Focus traces God's presence from Eden to the New Creation — a concise, biblical guide for everyday Christians.

I’m excited to announce my new book, Walk: Setting Out on the Christian Life—a short, pastoral guide for new Christians, seekers, and anyone wanting to return to the basics of following Jesus.

I spoke at the Expositors Collective training weekend in Temecula on the value and power of expository preaching, led a small-group workshop on teaching a Bible lesson, and joined the Q&A panels.

Our 26th annual Good Friday and Easter services in Carlsbad: a contemplative Friday evening of Gospel readings and sung Psalms, then Easter morning with hymns, a message, and food afterward. All welcome.

God's presence isn't a feeling or a mystical experience — it's the covenantal nearness of Father, Son, and Spirit. My new book traces that story from Eden to the New Creation. Out now from Christian Focus.

Our 25th annual Festival of Lessons & Carols: ten Scripture readings from Genesis to the Gospels, traditional carols, and cookies and cider afterward. Christmas Eve, 6:30 p.m., at the Army and Navy Academy Chapel in Carlsbad.

Ten lepers were healed. One came back. A Thanksgiving sermon on Luke 17:11–19 — and on why we're so much quicker to cry for help than to return thanks.

Three books from August: Bryant Rueda's Screwtape-style letters to preachers, William Whitaker's sixteenth-century defense of Scripture against Bellarmine, and a thousand aphorisms from Campegius Vitringa.

Paul's letter to the Romans has shaped the church more than almost any other book of Scripture. We're opening it up at Oceanside URC verse by verse, chapter by chapter — every sermon in the series collected here.

“Theology that does not become biography is wishful thinking." My college professor's classroom slogan turns out to rest on centuries of debate — Aquinas, Scotus, Ramus, Perkins, Ames — over whether theology is contemplative or practical.