Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: God, the second title in The Good Portion series.
The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 12:39PM 
Photo by Andrew Stark
King’s Throne in Kluane National Park, with the Kathleen River Bridge in the foreground, in early spring two years ago. This is my current desk top photo.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 9:17AM These words before me, or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation:[1] as also to persuade us to do as in his sight,: Whatever we do in his service.[2]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 9:30PM From my email:
Do you know of some old hymns that speak directly to penal substitution? I saw one on your blog but do you know of others?
That Christ’s death was penal substitution means that “his death bore the just penalty of God for our sins as a substitute for us.” (Definition taken from the glossary of Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology.)
The hymn refered to that I posted was Hallelujah! What a Savior, which says, “in my place condemned he stood.” Can you think of other hymns with phrases like this, hymns that clearly teach that Christ’s death was penal substitution?