The Problem of Sin and the Problem of Mercy

I posted at Out of the Ordinary today on the saving work of Jesus. It’s another in the series of posts about the truths every Christian woman—or man or child, for that matter—should know.

Here’s a taste:

Like all good stories, [the true story of God and his work in the history of his creation] has a problem that must be solved, and it’s only right that a big story has a big problem—the biggest ever—a problem only God can solve.

Read the rest of Jesus Lived and Died.

Here are the previous posts in this series:

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

Sunday's Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, Holy, Holy, all the saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, Holy, Holy, though the darkness hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy Name, in earth and sky and sea;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

—Reginald Heber

Keith Green

Acappella

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

• Omnipotent Lord at By Grace Alone
• Lead On, O King Eternal at Graces Daily
• My Hope Is Built at The Happy Wonderer
• Christ Is Victor Because He Was the Victim from Trevin Wax
• The righteous don’t go with the flow at Blogging Theologically
• Lifting Up Our Hearts - 35 at The Upward Call
• Confidence not misplaced at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 32, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: How to live at Pyromaniacs

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.

Climbing Fish

The chinook salmon are back at the Whitehorse Rapids fish ladder. You can watch them live, pooling at the bottom of the ladder. Right now, as I watch, there are twenty or so salmon waiting their turn to go through. What do you see?

A fish ladder is a way to get the fish swimming upstream around the dam. It’s a system of ascending weirs, and the fish move up and through, leaping over the partitions or swimming through underwater doorways from one weir to the next until they go around the dam and into Schwatka Lake. From there the salmon continue travelling to the same creek they came from, where they spawn and die. 

A few chinook salmon swimming in the fish ladder last year

As they pass through the ladder, salmon are counted, and their sex and size is determined and recorded. This year so far there have been 220 Chinook salmon through the ladder, with about 100 of those coming through today.

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