Sunday's Hymn: Reader's Choice

Today’s hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness, is a favorite of Mummymac from Northern Ireland. She likes it

…just because He is really! And also because “All I have needed His hand has provided” etc etc.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.

Refrain

Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

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Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• Joyful, Joyful at Above the Clouds
• I Would Be Like Jesus at Seasonings of the Heart
  
• Lord’s Day 26, 2007 at The Thirsty Theologian
  
• The Heav’ns Declare Thy Glory at joythruChrist
• The Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
• Beautiful at The Happy Wonderer
• I Need Thee Every Hour at Thoughts from the Teahouse
  
• Only a Sinner at Fish and Cans
  

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. If you’d like to see your favorite hymn featured as a Reader’s Choice hymn, go here and leave a comment. Just tell me your favorite hymn and a little bit about why you like it and I’ll feature your hymn when your turn comes.

I've Been Negligent

This week I  received a Blogger Reflection Award twice, from Kim of Hiraeth and Carla of Reflections of the Times. This is an award given to bloggers who

…who have been an encouragement, a source of love, impacted you in some way, and have been a Godly example to you…who when you reflect on them you get a sense of pride and joy…of knowing them and being blessed by them.

I haven’t said thank you yet, and I want to do that. It’s a great honor to receive something like this from bloggers of Kim and Carla’s calibre.

Now I’m supposed to give five awards, but most of the bloggers I’d give it to have been on the receiving end of it already, so I think I’m just going to be thankful I receive it and leave it at that. Thanks, Kim and Carla. You guys made my week!

Richard Hooker on Justification

 …and imputed (or alien) righteousness.

From A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown:

There is a glorifying righteousness of men in the world to come; and there is a justifying and a sanctifying righteousness here. The righteousness wherewith we shall be clothed in the world to come is both perfect and inherent. That whereby we are justified is perfect, but not inherent. That whereby we are sanctified, inherent, but not perfect.