Sunday Hymn: His Mercy Is More

What love could remember no wrongs we have done;
Omniscient, all-knowing, He counts not their sum.
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore;
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more.

Chorus
Praise the Lord!
His mercy is more.
Stronger than darkness; new every morn;
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more.

What patience would wait as we constantly roam;
What Father, so tender, is calling us home.
He welcomes, the weakest, the vilest, the poor;
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more.

What riches of kindness He lavished on us;
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost.
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford;
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more.

—Matt Boswell and Matt Papa

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Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

• I Think When I Read That Story of Old at The Happy Wonderer 

Selected Reading, August 7, 2021

 

A few good reads for your weekend—or maybe your month.

Bible Study

What Does Hebrews 3:1-6 Mean?
I’m still slowing working through the book of Hebrews, so I enjoy seeing other people work through it, too. In this piece, Mike Leake explains Hebrews 3:1-6. (I posted two pieces on this passage a couple of years ago: Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant and Well Pleased, Beloved Son.)

History

A Woman for All Seasons
An essay on Sophie Scholl by Esther O’Reilly, who is always worth reading. 

Fiction

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I stayed up late too many nights this week finishing up the classic novel Jane Eyre. The story was just as compelling this time as it was when I read it as a teen. But this time, I think, I noticed the humour more.

I enjoyed Jane Eyre much more than Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, which I reread last month. Let’s just say Wuthering Heights didn’t get any less weird with the passage of time.

The link above it to the Folio Society edition, which is the one I read. It’s expensive, but it looks and feels like a classic book should. 

Next on my reading list is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. I’m making it a Bronte sisters summer.

Theological Term of the Week: Apollinarius

Apollinarius (or Apollinaris)
“[A]n Alexandrian thinker, a friend of Athanasius and a strong opponent of Arianism,” who “got in trouble for teaching quite openly that Christ did not have a human mind or spirit.”1 He lived from 300 until 390, and became bishop of Laodicea in 361.

• From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham, page 272: 

Apollinarius believed that the human mind was the source of all human weakness and sin. He therefore felt that Christ’s sinless perfection required Him not to have a human mind. The divine and infinite mind of the Son or Logos, Apollinarius taught, took the place of a human mind in Christ: He was a divine mind in a human body. This absence of a human mind preserved Christ from the possibility of sin. Apollinarius also thought that is Christ had a human as well as a divine mind, He would split apart into two separate persons, a human Son of Man and a Divine Son of God. So again, to avoid this disastrous conclusion, Apollinarius denied that Christ had a human mind. 

Learn more:

1. Philip Schaff: Apollinaris of Laodicea
2. 5 Minutes in Church History: An Eight-Syllable Heresy
3. Ligonier Ministries: The Apollinarian Heresy
4. Theology in the Middle: Apollinaris and Apollinarianism, Part 1 and Apollinaris and Apollinarianism, Part 2

Related terms:

• Ambrose of Milan
• Athanasius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Basil of Caesarea
• Cappadocian fathers
• Gregory of Nanzianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Hilary of Poitiers
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Jerome
• John Chrysostom
• Justin Martyr
• Monica
• Origen
• Pelagius
• Sabellius
• Tertullian

Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.

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