Sunday's Hymn: Grace Greater Than Our Sin

Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,
Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt!
Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured,
There where the blood of the Lamb was spilled.

Refrain

Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin.

Sin and despair, like the sea waves cold,
Threaten the soul with infinite loss;
Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold,
Points to the refuge, the mighty cross.

Dark is the stain that we cannot hide.
What can avail to wash it away?
Look! There is flowing a crimson tide,
Brighter than snow you may be today.

Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace,
Freely bestowed on all who believe!
You that are longing to see His face,
Will you this moment His grace receive?

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

• I Bind Unto Myself Today at Gospel Grace
• Not What My Hands Have Done at Field Stone Cottage
• Let US Break Bread Together at The Happy Wonderer
• Face To Face with Christ, My Savior at Rosemary at Home
• God, I Will Praise Your Name at Conjubilant With Song
• Lord’s Day 27 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 5:9 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 27, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Things That Are Despised
• Faith Alone - July 1, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Sunday Prayer: Grace Active 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.

Round the Sphere Again: Atonement

Penal Substitution Visualized
There’s one more infographic in the on-going Visual Theology series at Challies.com. Featured this time around is penal substitutionary atonement.

Definite Atonement Defended
Dan Phillips has posted an outstanding response to Roger Olson’s recent argument against definite atonement (Pyromaniacs): Part 1, Part 2.

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While we’re on the subject, here are a few of my favorite books on the atonement.

• The Atonement: Its Meaning and Significance by Leon Morris. This book lays down the basics in a way anyone can understand. I’ve put it first because it’s a very good place to start learning about the atonement.
• In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement by J. I. Packer and others.
• Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sachs. I’ve almost finished reading this and I plan to review it soon.
• Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. This one’s a classic for a reason. 

The Hidden Life of Prayer, Chapters 5 and 6

I only have time for a quick quote from this week’s reading from The Hidden Life of Prayer by David McIntyre. (Chapter 5 was on confession in prayer, and chapter 6 on making petitions to God.)

When, in the course of the day’s engagements, our conscience witnesses against us that we have sinned, we should at once confess our guilt, claim by faith the cleansing of the blood of Christ, and so wash our hands in innocence. And afterwards, as soon as we have a convenient opportunity, we ought to review with deliberation the wrong that we have done. As we consider it with God we shall be impressed by its sinfulness, as we were not at the time of committal. And if the sin is one which we have committed before, one to which perhaps our nature lies open, we must cast ourselves in utter faith upon the strong mercy of God, pleading with Him in the name of Christ that we may never again so grieve Him.

As our hearts grow more tender in the presence of God, the remembrance of former sins which have already been acknowledged and forgiven will from time to time imprint a fresh stain upon our conscience. In such a case nature itself seems to teach us that we ought anew to implore the pardoning grace of God. For we bend, not before judgment seat of the Divine Lawgiver, but before our Father, to whom we have been reconciled through Christ. A more adequate conception of the offense which we have committed ought surely to be followed by a deeper penitence for the wrong done. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit we shall often be led to pray with the Psalmist, “Remember not the sins of my youth” (Psa 25:7), even though these have long since been dealt with and done away. Conviction of sin will naturally prompt to confession. When such promptings are disregarded, the Spirit who has wrought in us that conviction is grieved.