Sunday Hymn: When Morning Gilds the Skies

When morning gilds the skies my heart awaking cries:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Alike at work and prayer, to Jesus I repair:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

The night becomes as day when from the heart we say:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
The powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

Let all the earth around ring joyous with the sound:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
In Heaven’s eternal bliss the loveliest strain is this:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

To God, the Word, on high, the host of angels cry,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let mortals, too, upraise their voice in hymns of praise,
May Jesus Christ be praised!  

Here’s a beautiful performance by a group from Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC.

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

• Update: Crown Him with Many Crowns at Still Reforming
• Update: O God, to Show Us Mercy at Conjubilant with Song
• Update: The Spirit Breathes upon the Word at Hiraeth
• Update: The Sands of Time Are Sinking at Field Stone Cottage
• I Am Anchored Safe at The Happy Wonderer
• Crown Him With Many Crowns at Rosemary at Home
• Lord’s Day 5 at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 5, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Praying the Psalms - Psalm 63 at Daily On My Way to Heaven
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 2:1 at Theology for Girls
• A Quest for Godliness - January 29, 2012 at Alabamenagerie
• Faith Alone - January 29, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: No doubt as to what we believe and teach

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

There were three things I read this week that I immediately linked in old Theological Term of the Week posts.

image of God

• Added a link to Kim Riddlebarger’s Divine Image Bearers. Quoting:

  [T]he biblical account tells us that Adam was created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26), which indicates that Adam is neither divine, nor the product of some unspecified primordial process. Adam was created by a direct act of God in which Adam’s body was created by God from the dust of the earth, while his soul was created when God breathed life into the first man (Genesis 2:7). The divine image extends to Eve as well (Genesis 2:4-24). To be human then, is to be male or female and to bear God’s image in both body and soul, which exist as a unity of both spiritual (the soul) and material (the body) elements. To be a divine image bearer is to be an ectype (copy) of which God is archetype (original).

vocation

• Added a link to Aaron Armstrong’s Your Work Is Your Calling.

  To work in ministry and survive, you need to have a sense of calling. It doesn’t matter if it’s church or para-church ministry—if you are there running on your own steam, it will kill you. And, let’s be honest, your coworkers won’t want to work with you either.

  But the same is true for “normal” work, too. As a Christian, you can’t do it and excel under your own power, not indefinitely.

Westminster Shorter Catechism

• Added a link to Matt Kirkland’s Westminster Shorter Catechism (A Designer’s Exploration). Check it out; I can’t quote this one. 

Round the Sphere Again: It Is Finished

He Sits
“[I]t’s thrilling to think that Jesus is seated at the right hand of God.  His work is finished.  He accomplished all that was needful for our salvation (Sitting Is Good News by Kevin DeYoung).”

We Bring Nothing
“[T]he tax collector walked away justified because he ‘owned’ his spiritual poverty, copped to the bottomlessness of his need. He brought nothing to the table and therefore was ‘rich toward God’ (Nothing in My Hand I Bring by Jared Wilson).”