Sunday Hymn: Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high.
Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last.

Other refuge have I none, hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
Leave, ah! leave me not alone, still support and comfort me.
All my trust on Thee is stayed, all my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head with the shadow of Thy wing.

Wilt Thou not regard my call? Wilt Thou not accept my prayer?
Lo! I sink, I faint, I fall—Lo! on Thee I cast my care;
Reach me out Thy gracious hand! While I of Thy strength receive,
Hoping against hope I stand, dying, and behold, I live.

Thou, O Christ, art all I want, more than all in Thee I find;
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is Thy name, I am all unrighteousness;
False and full of sin I am; Thou art full of truth and grace.

Plenteous grace with Thee is found, grace to cover all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art, freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart; rise to all eternity.

—Charles Wesley

There are too many interesting renditions of this hymn on YouTube. Narrowing it to three wasn’t easy.  

1. Celtic style with tune by Joseph Parry.
2. Sacred Harp performance to tune by Simeon Marsh.
3. South African Mass Male Choir singing Simeon Marsh tune. 

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

• Update: Call Jehovah Thy Salvation at Field Stone Cottage (All the hymns we sang in church this morning were based on Psalm 91. So is this one.)
• O Beautiful Things at Gospel Grace
• Be Careful Little Eyes at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 29 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 6:1-2 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 29, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Faith Alone - July 15, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Sunday Prayer: Fullness at Lisa Writes

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.

This Week in Housekeeping

I updated these Theological Term posts:

cosmological argument

• Updated the link to the audio of Ronald Nash’s lecture, The Cosmological Argument.
• Added a link to  What is the cosmological argument for the existence of God? from GotQuestions.org.
• Added a link to Wikipedia’s article on the Cosmological Argument.
• Added a link to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s article on the Cosmological Argument.
• Added the related terms moral argument, ontological argument, teleological argument, trancendental argument for the existence of God.

covenant

• Updated the links to Michael Lawrence’s sermons The Covenant of Works – Genesis 2:15-17 ; The Covenant of Grace – Genesis 12:1-3 ; The Covenant of Law – Deuteronomy 4 ; The New Covenant – Jeremiah 31:27-34. 

Round the Sphere Again: Ten

Household Items
you can clean in one minute (Apartment Therapy).

I’m a little surprised that cleaning the dryer lint filter made the list. I thought everyone but my sister-in-law cleaned the filter after every single load of laundry. (She famously told the appliance repairman, “Don’t take that off! That’s insulation!” She’s more than happy to tell this story on herself, so I’m not tattling.)

Baptists
Steve Weaver continues his series Ten Baptist You Should Know with a biographical sketch of William Carey (Credo Magazine), plus a reading list for those who want to know more about Carey.

Misconceptions
Michael Kruger takes on #7 on the list of ten misconceptions about the New Testament canon: “Christians had no basis to distinguish heresy from orthodoxy until the fourth century”.