Round the Sphere Again: Questions Answered

Why a Cloud?
At the transfiguration; at the ascention; at the last judgment (Strawberry Rhubarb Theology).

What Words Should Be Capitalized in a Title?
There’s more than one right answer to this one (Grammar Girl).

I try to use the formatting suggested in the Chicago Manual of Style, mostly because it’s what I learned in school:

Capitalize the first word of the title, the last word of the title, and all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, subordinating conjunctions, and a few conjunctions. Prepositions are only capitalized if they are used adjectivally or adverbially. For example you’d capitalize the word “up” in a title that read “Squiggly Looked Up a Word” but not in a title that read “Squiggly Walked up the Mountain.

What about you? What style of title capitalization do you use?

A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments

38. Q. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
      A. To love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself.

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Sunday's Hymn

We (and by that I mean my church choir) sang this at a memorial service yesterday.

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found;
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This cornerstone, this solid ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My comforter, my all in all—
Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone, Who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save.
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied;
For ev’ry sin on Him was laid—
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain;
Then bursting forth in glorious day,
Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory,
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me;
For I am His and He is mine—
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death—
This is the pow’r of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No pow’r of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home—
Here in the pow’r of Christ I’ll stand.

“In Christ Alone”
Words and Music by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
Copyright © 2001 Kingsway Thankyou Music

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• We’re Marching to Zion at threegirldad
• Father, Again in Jesus’ Name We Meet at Fieldstone Cottage
• Away with Our Fears, Our Troubles and Tears at The Happy Wonderer
• Hark, My Soul It Is the Lord at Rosemary at Home
• Christians, Rejoice, and Sing at Tried With Fire
• Lo, In the Likeness of Fire at Conjubilant with Song
• Lord’s Day 24, 2011 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Voices From the Past - June 12, 2011 at The Upward Call
• Update: Praying the Psalms at Daily On My Way to Heaven

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.