Sunday's Hymn: O Worship the King

O worship the king all glorious above,
O gratefully sing his power and his love;
Our shield and defender, the ancient of days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space.
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
And dark is his path on the wings of the storm.

The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, thy pow’r hath founded of old;
Hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air; it shines in the light;
It streams from the hills; it descends to the plain;
And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!

O measureless might! ineffable love!
While angels delight to hymn thee above,
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall lisp to thy praise.

 —Robert Grant

Lyons

Hanover

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

• A Mighty Fortress Is Our God at Theology for Girls
• My God, I Am Thine at Graces Daily
• O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing at The Happy Wonderer
• He shall choose for me at Tried With Fire
• Lifting Up Our Hearts — 22 at The Upward Call
• Lord’s Day 15, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: The Dragon!
• The last days of Jesus: the triumphant King at Blogging Theologically
• Holy Week, Day 1: Palm Sunday at Justin Taylor

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.

This Week in Housekeeping

I cleaned up these theological term posts this week.

decretive will

• Added will of God’s good pleasure as an alternate term. I was unfamiliar with it, but it’s used in From Heaven He Came and Sought Her.

preceptive will

• Added expressed will and signified will as alternate terms. These, too, are used in From Heaven He Came and Sought Her.

love

• Fixed the link to Don Stewart’s Is God Love?
• Added related terms common grace, goodness, grace, and mercy.
• Added Filed under God’s Nature and His Work.

manuscripts

• Updated the link to Don Stewart’s Aren’t There Mistakes in the Various Copies of the Bible?
• Added related terms autographs, inerrancy of scripture, inspiration of scripture, textual criticism.
• Added Filed under Scripture.

Marcionism

• Updated the links to Justin Holcomb’s Know Your Heretics: Marcion.
• Fixed the link to related term modalism.

Thankful Thursday

Today, as I shared an avocado with my youngest granddaughter, I remembered how much my mother loved them. They were a rare treat for her, because back then they weren’t stocked year-round in the produce department in Minnesota like they are now, and when they were in stock, they were very expensive, and the budget was tight. But once a year or so, she’d splurge on an avocado, and eat the whole thing with a spoon, just like I eat cantaloupe. She was thankful for each avocado!

I’m thankful for avocados, too—thankful that we can get them year round at a reasonable price so that I can spread them on my sandwiches like mayo. I’m thankful that I could share one today with my granddaughter. I’m thankful for all the fresh fruits and veggies available to me. 

I’m thankful for the late evening light reminding me that summer is on its way, even though the weather today was more winter than spring.

I’m thankful for book—the books I’m reading now, the books I’m using to research some posts I’m writing, and the supreme book breathed out by God so we can know him and his work.