Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment! Come away!

Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear;
All His saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!

Answer Thine own bride and Spirit,
Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
The new Heav’n and earth t’inherit,
Take Thy pining exiles home:
All creation, all creation, all creation,
Travails! groans! and bids Thee come!

The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
With what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly!
Everlasting God, come down!

—John Cennick and Charles Wesley

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

• Update: Blessed Be The Name at Jam and Books
• Hannah’s Song at threegirldad
• O My Soul With Wonder Tell at Tried With Fire
• All People That on Earth Do Dwell at Rosemary at Home
• The Patriot’s Prayer at The Happy Wonderer
• How Precious Is the Book Divine at Field Stone Cottage
• O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus at Whatever Things
• I Shall Not Want in Deserts Wild at Conjubilant with Song
• Lord’s Day 20, 2011 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Voice From the Past - May 15, 2011 at The Upward Call
• The Lord’s Day: God Finishes What He Starts at Theology for Girls
• Praise My Soul the King of Heaven at Hiraeth
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: A Word About Mothers, A Week after Mother’s Day

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: Some Weekend Fun

Quick Quirky Quotes
Ten things Yogi Berra really did say (mental_floss Blog).

Camel Case Considerations
Everything you need to know (Grammer Girl).

Round the Sphere Again: Thinking About Death

The Last Words
of Mary Winslow (Theology for Girls).

On Martyrdom
from the church father Ignatius. For Ignatius, 

martyrdom was part of a defense of the faith. Abounding at this time were heretical gnostic teachings, and the specific teaching of Docetism stated that Christ did not suffer and die. By his example of martyrdom, Ignatius could provide a defense for the reality of his faith. 

(The Upward Call)

On Losing a Baby 
Lisa Blanco shares a few great truths that give comfort, starting with “the Lord does not delight in wickedness.”

It was not wicked for the Lord to take our son. The Lord does not delight in wickedness or evil, his Word tells us in Psalm 5:4. His Word in Psalm 89:14 tells us that his throne is actually built on a foundation of righteousness and justice. I think this is how we can grieve well, when we long to take care and hold our son, to remember God’s foundation of righteousness in all that he does as we grieve in a world of sin and death. Somehow, in the death of our son, God will show us a greater picture of his goodness. Somehow, for our good, this is going to make us look more like his Son, Jesus.

(The Gospel Coalition Blog)