Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

Sunday
May022021

Sunday's Hymn: The King of Love My Shepherd Is

 

 

The King of Love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
I nothing lack if I am his
And he is mine for ever.

Where streams of living water flow
My ransomed soul he leadeth,
And, where the verdant pastures grow,
With food celestial feedeth.

Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,
But yet in love he sought me,
And on his shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me.

In death’s dark vale I fear no ill
With thee, dear Lord, beside me;
Thy rod and staff my comfort still,
Thy cross before to guide me.

Thou spread’st a table in my sight;
Thine unction grace bestoweth;
And O what transport of delight
From thy pure chalice floweth.

And so through all the length of days
Thy goodness faileth never;
Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise
Within thy house for ever.

 —Hen­ry W. Bak­er

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

Saturday
May012021

Selected Reading, May 1, 2021

 

A couple things you should read this weekend.

Christian History

Robert Jermain Thomas
A fascinating story of a missionary well-known in Korea, but not known at all to me. Do you know this story?

Gregory of Nanziansus
The theological term for this week is a Cappadocian Father

Christology

Why Jesus’s Humanity Matters as Much as His Divinity
“[T]he apostle John makes Jesus’s humanity a test of orthodoxy: ‘By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God’ (1 John 4:2). And whoever rejects the reality that Jesus came “in the flesh” is called an ‘antichrist’ (1 John 4:3).”

So why it matters so much that Jesus is truly human? Michael Kruger explains.

Thursday
Apr292021

Theological Term: Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nasianzus
One of the Cappadocian fathers, best friend of Basil of Caesarea, presbyter in his home church of Nanzianzus, bishop of Constantanople, and one of the Eastern Church’s “most eloquent preacher[s] in the age of the early Church fathers.”1 He lived from 330-390. Also known as Gregory the Theologian.

  • From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham:
  • Active church live, however, was not really to Gregory’s liking; he was a sensitive, inward-looking person, who preferred writing poetry in solitude to the vicious cut-and-thrust of fighting Arians in the public arena of Church politics and theological debate. Despite, this, in 379-81 Gregory was briefly bishop of the little Catholic congregation in the Eastern capital, Constantinople, where Arianism reigned supreme. Here Gregory’s Five Theological Orations brilliantly summed up the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity, refuted Arianism, and attracted large numbers to Gregory’s church, winning them over to the Nicene faith.

Learn more:

  1. Got Questions: Who was Gregory of Nanziansus? and Who were the Cappadocian Fathers?
  2. Theopedia: Gregory of Nanzianzus
  3. Credo Magazine: Gregory of Nanzianzus

 

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Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.


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