Theological Term of the Week

 

Still stuck on the “im” words.

 

impeccability
Used of Christ, it refers to the doctrine that Jesus Christ was incapable of sinning.

• From the Bible:

  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell….
  
  For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily…. (Colossians 1:19, 2:9 ESV)

  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.  (Hebrews 13:8 ESV)
  

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Sunday's Hymn

We did sing out of the hymnal this morning, but only one selection was a hymn with words I can find online and that is one I featured here only a couple of months ago. So I’m going to post another of the favorite hymns of my youth instead.

Lead Me to Calvary

King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.

Refrain
Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.

Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid,
Tenderly mourned and wept;
Angels in robes of light arrayed
Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept.

Let me like Mary, through the gloom,
Come with a gift to Thee;
Show to me now the empty tomb,
Lead me to Calvary.

May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee;
Even Thy cup of grief to share,
Thou hast borne all for me.

You can hear this hymn sung in this video. And I enjoyed this a lot more if I ignored the…uhm…video.

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
  
• The Heav’ns Declare Thy Glory at Hiraeth
• My Soul in Silence Waits for God at Seasoning of the Heart
• When I Survery the Wondrous Cross at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 31, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• I Will Sing My Maker’s Praise at joythruChrist
• How Sweet and Awful Is the Place at Practicing Theology
• Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life at Conjubilant with Song
• Great Is the Gospel of Our Glorious God  at Whatever Things…
• The Love of God at The Happy Wonderer
• Rock of Ages at Driveway Blogger
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

What Is a Healthy Church Member?

by Thabiti Anyabwile (Thu-BEE-tee On-ya-bwee-LAY-hee)

What Is a Healthy Church Member? is patterned after the book What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever, and is the third book in the IXMark series. It gives us “one proposal for becoming a healthier member of your local church.”

The ten chapters in this little book (and it is little) are based around ten marks of a healthy church member. Each chapter ends with a few questions for deeper thinking on the topic of the chapter, and many chapters also include a short list of books for more reading on the topic. It’s all biblically grounded, theologically sound, and most of all, practical.

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