Round the Sphere Again: Numbered Lists

14 Tips
Helping your young children participate in worship with the rest of the church. For one, you can sit near the front because there’s less distraction there. (Jason Helopoulos standing in for Kevin DeYoung)

20 Aspects
to faith gleaned from Hebrews 11. To start:

1.  Faith understands God is Creator.

 ³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

2.  Faith offers to God.

⁴ By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

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A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments 

67. Q. Does God condemn all men?

      A. No. Though he could justly have done so he has graciously entered into a covenant to save many.  

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

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Jehovah Our Righteousness

My God, how perfect are Thy ways!

But mine polluted are;

Sin twines itself about my praise,

And slides into my prayer.

When I would speak what Thou hast done

To save me from my sin,

I cannot make Thy mercies known,

But self-applause creeps in.

Divine desire, that holy flame

Thy grace creates in me;

Alas! impatience is its name,

When it returns to Thee.

This heart, a fountain of vile thoughts.

How does it overflow,

While self upon the surface floats,

Still bubbling from below.

Let others in the gaudy dress

Of fancied merit shine;

The Lord shall be my righteousness,

The Lord forever mine.

—William Cowper in Olney Hymns

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More Cowper poetry:

• 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