Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 8

What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.

You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.

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Article VI.

We affirm that the whole of Scripture and all its parts, down to the very words of the original, were given by divine inspiration.

We deny that the inspiration of Scripture can rightly be affirmed of the whole without the parts, or of some parts but not the whole.

Sunday's Hymn

Hallelujah for the Cross!

The cross, it standeth fast—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Defying every blast—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
The winds of hell have blown,
The world its hate hath shown,
Yet it is not overthrown—
Hallelujah for the cross!

Refrain

Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Hallelujah for the cross;
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
It shall never suffer loss!

It is the old cross still—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Its triumph let us tell—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
The grace of God here shone
Thru Christ, the blessèd Son,
Who did for sin atone—
Hallelujah for the cross!

’Twas here the debt was paid—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Our sins on Jesus laid—
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
So round the cross we sing
Of Christ, our offering,
Of Christ, our living King—
Hallelujah for the cross!

—Horatius Bonar

Half the fun of posting these hymns is finding them done on YouTube. Here’s a Mandarin choir in Australia singing this one.

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

• All Glory, Laud and Honor at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 13, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Crown Him with Many Crowns at Whatever Is Good
• There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood at Field Stone Cottage
• All Ye That Pass By at Whatever Things
• Heart Aflame - March 28, 2010 at The Upward Call
• Ride On, Ride On In Majesty at Conjubilant With Song
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Shall We Fraternize with Those Who Bury the Gospel under Wagon Loads of Trash?
• Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted at Hiraeth

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 emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Saturday's Old Photo: The Gift

A few weeks ago I posted a photo of my dad’s family and mentioned that there had been one more child, a boy who died when he was only a couple of months old. And here is that little one, wearing a cap and wrapped in a knit blanket, cuddled in my grandma’s arms.

On the back of this photo she has written

To Frankie [that’s my dad] -

Harmon Charles Vogt

Taken at the age of 2 months and 1 week.

Born Sept. 20, 1932

Died Dec. 12, 1932

Harmon was born with spina bifida. Counting up, I figure he died a couple of weeks after this picture was taken. If he were still living, he’d be seventy-seven years old, but as it was, Harmon Vogt’s life was more of a mist than most.

In all the other photos of my grandma, she’s looking straight at the camera. Here she’s looking down at the baby she knows will be taken from her. The Lord gives life and the Lord takes it away, leaving us with a few genuine sepia photographs for remembering.