Heidelberg Catechism

Question 4. What does God’s law require of us?

Answer: Christ teaches us this in a summary in Matthew 22:37-40, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” (a)

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Sunday's Hymn: My Faith Looks Up to Thee

My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine!
Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day be wholly Thine!

May Thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire!
As Thou hast died for me, O may my love to Thee,
Pure warm, and changeless be, a living fire!

While life’s dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread, be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow’s tears away,
Nor let me ever stray from Thee aside.

When ends life’s transient dream,
When death’s cold sullen stream over me roll;
Blest Savior, then in love, fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!

—Ray Palmer

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me at Graces Daily
• Abide With Me at The Happy Wonderer
• Jesus, Lover of My Soul at Gospel Grace
• Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine at By Grace Alone
• The Lord’s Prayer: The Fifth Petition at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 38, 2013 at The Thirsty Theologian
• You Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: What can’t be cured must be endured

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.

Managing Grief

I’ve quoted J. I. Packer on grieving in a way that honors God over at Out of the Ordinary this morning.