This Week in Housekeeping

It’s been a very busy week, but I did manage to add a few newish links I’d saved for two theological term posts.

Trinity

• Added a link to Tim Challies’ Visual Theology - The Trinity.
• Added a link to J. I. Packer’s Trinity (an excerpt from Concise Theology.)

typology

• Added a link to Tim Challies’  A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words.

Praise for Faith

Of all the gifts Thine hand bestows,

Thou Giver of all good!

Not heaven itself a richer knows

Than my Redeemer’s blood.

Faith too, the blood-receiving grace,

From the same hand we gain;

Else, sweetly as it suits our case,

That gift had been in vain.

Till Thou Thy teaching power apply,

Our hearts refuse to see,

And weak, as a distemper’d eye,

Shut out the view of Thee.

Blind to the merits of Thy Son,

What misery we endure!

Yet fly that Hand from which alone

We could expect a cure.

We praise Thee, and would praise Thee more,

To Thee our all we owe:

The precious Saviour, and the power

That makes Him precious too.

—William Cowper

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More Cowper poetry:

• Jehovah Our Righteousness
• The Contrite Heart
• The New Convert
• Old Testament Gospel
• To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut
• Jehovah-Jesus
• Self-Acquaintance

On the life of Cowper: 

• A lecture on the life of Cowper by Michael Haykin 
• Cowper 1
• Cowper 2

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful that my youngest son’s trip to Europe is going well. I’m also thankful that he’s been emailing me frequently. Frequent contact isn’t a given when your kids travel, so I’m especially thankful for this.

I’m thankful for that spring is coming, or is here, depending on what your definition of spring is. I’m thankful that the Easter season is here, or coming, what ever your definition of Easter season is.

I’ve been listening to some audio sermons and lectures while I do spring cleaning, and I’m thankful for them. I’m thankful for the work done collecting them at sites like Monergism.com. I’m also thankful for those who preach the sermons and speak the lectures. 

I’m thankful for some recent superb provisions for me and mine. I can’t list them for the whole wide world to read, but I’m thank God for them. 

I’m thankful for the work of the Holy Spirit, who points us (me) to Christ.

What about you? What are you thankful for?