Sunday's Hymn

For the next few weeks, I’ll use one of the congregational hymns I’ve sung in church in the morning as the Sunday hymn. Today, we didn’t sing out of the hymnal at all—that always makes me a little sad—but we did sing this song, which I’d say would hold it’s own, substance-wise and quality-wise, against any of the hymns in the hymn book. And when Stuart Townend wrote it, he was indeed intending to write a hymn.

How Deep the Father’s Love for Us 

 

How deep the Father’s love for us,
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss –
The Father turns His face away,
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory.

Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life –
I know that it is finished.

I will not boast in anything,
No gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ,
His death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer;
But this I know with all my heart –
His wounds have paid my ransom.

You can hear it sung in this video, which is one of the few versions I could find that was not sung in a breathy female voice. (There! I’ve let you in on another of my musical pet peeves.)

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• Trinity Sunday at Magic Statistics
• Safely Through Another Week at The Happy Wonderer
• Jesus! What a Friend for Sinner! at Hiraeth
  
• I Sing the Might Power of God at Seasoning of the Heart
• Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me at Whatever Things…
• Crown Him with Many Crowns at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 20, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Happy the Man Whose Cautious Feet  at JoythruChrist
• Trinity Sunday at Conjubilant With Song

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

 

Update on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 5:42PM by rebecca

Kim of The Upward Call posts the words to Jesus, My Lord, My Savior.

My Desktop Photo 7: Soaring

Photo by Andrew Stark 

Gas Up: May 15

Gas in my neighbourhood went up 2¢ per litre last week, so I’m paying $1.379. That’d be $5.24 or thereabouts per gallon.

What about you? Help fill up the big empty space below by giving me your local gas price info.

(I took this photo on the dog walk I took at 10pm, so it gives you an idea of the light at that time of night. It’s 10:45pm as I write this and the sun is just now setting behind the mountains.)

• Update: William Meisheid says they “buy diesel and 4.29 (US) a gallon. All three of our cars (daughter’s, wife’s, and mine) are VW diesels (Jetta TDIs).” 
• Update: Mark Olson is paying $3.99 a gallon in Illinois.
• Update: In Crystal Lake, IL, Dorothy is paying $3.97/gallon, and she has the photo to prove it.
  

Update on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:51PM by rebecca

John is paying $3.69/gallon in Eastland, Texas.

Update on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 8:44AM by rebecca

Karen paid $3.87 a gallon in Southern CA.