Sunday Hymn: Christ Receiveth Sinful Men

Sinners Jesus will receive;
Sound this word of grace to all
Who the heavenly pathway leave,
All who linger, all who fall.

Refrain

Sing it o’er and over again;
Christ receiveth sinful men;
Make the message clear and plain:
Christ receiveth sinful men.

Come, and He will give you rest;
Trust Him, for His Word is plain;
He will take the sinfulest;
Christ receiveth sinful men.

Now my heart condemns me not,
Pure before the law I stand;
He who cleansed me from all spot,
Satisfied its last demand.

Christ receiveth sinful men,
Even me with all my sin;
Purged from every spot and stain,
Heaven with Him I enter in.

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

• Speak, O Lord at Lisa Writes
• Like a River Glorious at Field Stone Cottage
• O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go at The Happy Wonderer
• According to Thy Gracious Word at Rosemary at Home
• Lord’s Day 28 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 5:10-12 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 28, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Tread Carefully
• Faith Alone - July 8, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Update: Psalm 103 at Gospel Grace

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

These theological terms were updated this week.

presuppositional apologetics

• Added biblical apologetics as a synonym.
• Added a link to this handy-dandy comparison of the presuppositions of traditional apologetics and biblical (or presuppositional) appologetics (Fred Butler).

complementarianism

• Tweaked the definition.
• Added a link to Mary Kassian’s Complementarianism for Dummies. 
• Added the related term egalitarianism.

consequent absolute necessity

• Fixed a link.
• Added related term penal substitution.

The Hidden Life of Prayer, Chapters 7 and 8

The week we finished off The Hidden Life of Prayer by David McIntyre, reading the last two chapters. Chapter 7 concerned the personal and private benefits that come from prayer, what McIntyre calls “the hidden riches of the secret place,” especially a growing holiness and increased intimacy with Christ. Chapter 8 discusses the direct answers to the petitions we make in prayer.  

Here’s what McIntyre writes about the petitions we should make:

[W]e Christians may ask our Father for all that we need. Only, let our desires be restrained, and our prayers be unselfish. The personal petitions contained in the Lord’s Prayer are very modest—daily bread, forgiveness, and deliverance from sin’s power. Yet these comprise all things that pertain to life and godliness.

Bread and water, and a place of shelter amont the munitions of rocks, are assured to us… . But we are not often reduced to such simplicity of supply: God is so much better than His word. He feeds us with food convenient; and if ever He should suffer us to hunger, it is only that our spiritual nature may be enriched.

But man does not live by bread alone. Health and comfort, the joys of home, and the pleasures of knowledge, are blessings which we may rightfully ask, and they will not be withheld unless our Father judges it best that we should be deprived of them. But if He should bar our repeated requiest, and refuse to receive our prayer, we must then reply with the First-born among many brethren, “Abba, Father, all things are possible unto Thee; howbeit, not what I will, but what Thou wilt. When we reach the end of ourjourney if not before, we shall be able to say, “There hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised.”