Sunday's Hymn: At Calvary

Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified,
Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary.

Refrain

Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
Pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.

By God’s Word at last my sin I learned;
Then I trembled at the law I’d spurned,
Till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary.

Now I’ve given to Jesus everything,
Now I gladly own Him as my king,
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary!

Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary!

—Will­iam R. New­ell

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

• There’s Not a Tint That Paints the Rose at Conjubilant With Song
• Teach Me, O Lord, Thy Way of Truth at Field Stone Cottage
• Crown Him With Many Crowns at Rosemary at Home
• After All at Gospel Grace
• Fountain of Grace at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 33 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 8:5-9 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 33, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Faith Alone - August 12, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Update: Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Falling Asleep

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.

Round the Sphere Again: More People You Should Know

Prince of Preachers
Phil Johnson’s biographical sketch of Charles Spurgeon was posted last week at Pyromaniacs. It explains, for one, why there was so much gospel in Spurgeon’s sermons.

Frontier Missionary
John Piper on John Paton: 

It wasn’t until 1606 that Spanish explorer Fernandez de Quiros discovered a chain of eighty islands stretched across 450 miles in the South Pacific. Later named the New Hebrides, the islands were inhabited by peoples whose existence had been unknown to the rest of the world for centuries.

It would be another 230 years before two London missionaries made the first earnest attempt to bring the gospel to these unengaged and unreached peoples in 1839. But they were killed and eaten by cannibals only minutes after going ashore.

John G. Paton and his wife set sail to the islands in 1858. But this decision didn’t come without criticism. On one account before leaving, a respected elder chided the couple, “You will be eaten by cannibals!”

Piper’s biography of this courageous missionary is available as a free ebook in several formats.

Thankful Thursday

It’s the end of another busy day. I’m home alone; the house is quiet. I like a little bit of silence now and then, and I’m thankful that I have it tonight. 

Here are a few gifts I’ve received from my Father’s hand this week:

• Some days of perfect summer weather.
• Time with both grandbabies.
• Fresh broccoli from the garden.
• Peaches in season in the supermarket.
• The sound of rain on the roof while I sleep.
• An excellent sermon on taking up our cross.
• Time to finish some chores that have been too long on my to-do list.
• A few lessons learned, or so I hope.
• A new and exciting opportunity.

I’m also thankful that God is just. He will make everything right in the end and that’s a good thing. I’m thinking in particular of a crime that happened several years ago. No one who knew the victim thought the sentence of the court was commensurate with crime. But we don’t have to carry this injustice ourselves; we can leave it to God who will execute perfect justice. I can rest in that and I’m thankful.