Sunday's Hymn: Man of Sorrows!

Man of Sorrows! what a name
For the Son of God, who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim:
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned he stood,
Sealed my pardon with his blood:
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Guilty, vile, and helpless, we;
Spotless Lamb of God was he;
Full atonement! can it be?
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Lifted up was he to die,
“It is finished!” was his cry:
Now in heav’n exalted high:
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

When he comes, our glorious King,
All his ransomed home to bring,
Then anew this song we’ll sing:
Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

— Philip P. Bliss

Other hymns, worship songs, prayers, sermons excerpts, or quotes posted today:

• The Comforter Has Come at The Happy Wonderer
• The Lord Send Peace at The Upward Call
• The Power of Gospel Music at Theology for Girls
• Blaise Pascal’s Prayer When Sick from Trevin Wax
• Take away the foundation and lose everything at Blogging Theologically
• Lord’s Day 4, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: Woodworking 101 at Pyromaniacs
• Choice mercies of yesterday at Tried With Fire

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.

Linked Together: Think Local

For your weekend reading, two posts with a similar theme.

Where You Are Standing
“Christian woman, look where you are standing. Is there someone who needs you? Is there a way you can contribute to your local church? Is there a gift you are not using there, but you’ll use it elsewhere?  … The strength of the church world wide begins with the strength of each individual church, whether in a big city, or a small town like mine.” —Kim Shay in Look Where You Are Standing

Where You Are Planted
“God has   uniquely created each of us  for His own purposes.   I hope you’re  content with   where  He has put  you.    Christian women should be  finding  joy  and  purpose   by  simply  walking with Christ  in every day life.

“As the old saying goes,  ‘Bloom where you’re planted!.’” —Diane Bucknell in The Everyday Christian Woman

So Shall We Ever

I’ve written at Out of the Ordinary about what happens to believers after we die.

Christians call [the] heavenly fellowship with Christ experienced by the souls of believers who have died the intermediate state, because this is where the believer lives between their death and their resurrection.

…[D]espite all the popular so-called “heaven tourism” books, scripture is our only source of true information about the intermediate state. What scripture does say is that being a soul in heaven is better than being a body and soul united together in this fallen world (Philippians 1: 21-23), because in heaven we will be “at home” with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:1-8). We will be with Jesus in a way that’s nearer and better than the way he is with us now. What’s more, at death, our souls are “made perfect” (Hebrews 12:23). There is no more struggle with sin, for God makes us completely holy intermediate state.

This is the sixteenth post—the very last one—in the series I’m calling Sixteen Things Every Christian Woman Should Know. The whole list of things to know is below.

1. God Has Spoken (posted at the True Woman Blog) 
2. God Is Three and God Is One
3. God Is Who He Is
4. God Had a Plan
5. God Created the Universe
6. We Are Made in God’s Image
7. We Are All Sinners
8. God Saves
9. The Son Came
10. Jesus Lived and Died
11. Jesus Is Risen
12. Jesus Is Lord
13. We Must Believe
14. Believers Have New Life
15. Believers Belong
16. Believers Will Live With Jesus Forever