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What does the gospel do?

• It is through the gospel that life and immortality are brought to life. (2 Timothy 1:10)
• It is through that gospel that people are called to salvation. (2 Thessalonians 2:13-14)
• The gospel is at work in believers. (1 Thessalonians 2:9-14)
• The gospel comes in power and in the Holy Spirit and convicts fully. (1 Thessalonians 1:4)
• The gospel bears fruit and grows among people. (Colossians 1:6)
• The gospel gives hope. (Colossians 1:23)
• The gospel blesses. (1 Corinthians 9:23)
• It is through the gospel that Gentiles become fellow heirs. (Ephesians 3:6)
• The gospel saves. (Ephesians 1:13; 1 Corinthians 15:1; Romans 1:16)
• The confession of the gospel produces obedience. (2 Corinthians 9:13)
• It is through the gospel that people hear and come to faith. (Romans 10:14-17)

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Sunday's Hymn: See What A Morning!

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ee, what a morning, gloriously bright,
With the dawning of hope in Jerusalem;
Folded the grave-clothes, tomb filled with light,
As the angels announce, “Christ is risen!”
See God’s salvation plan,
Wrought in love, borne in pain, paid in sacrifice,
Fulfilled in Christ, the Man,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

See Mary weeping, “Where is He laid?”
As in sorrow she turns from the empty tomb;
Hears a voice speaking, calling her name;
It’s the Master, the Lord raised to life again!
The voice that spans the years,
Speaking life, stirring hope, bringing peace to us,
Will sound till He appears,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

One with the Father, Ancient of Days,
Through the Spirit who clothes faith with certainty.
Honor and blessing, glory and praise
To the King crowned with pow’r and authority!
And we are raised with Him,
Death is dead, love has won, Christ has conquered;
And we shall reign with Him,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!

—Words and Music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Copyright © 2003 Kingsway Thankyou Music

 

Christ is risen!

He is risen indeed!

 

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Collect for Easter-Day at Magic Statistics
• Was It A Morning Like This? at The Happy Wonderer
• Ah, Holy Jesus at Hiraeth
  
• Christ the Lord is Risen Today! at Seasoning of the Heart
• Low in the Grave He Lay at Whatever Things…
• Hail Thou Once Despised Jesus at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 12, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
  

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Poetry of the Cross: Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 6:14

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hen I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God,
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down,
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o’er His body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

—Isaac Watts

More Poetry of the Cross

• Dorothy at Field Stone Cottage: Not All the Blood of Beasts
• Update: Brandon of Siris: Dream of the Rood