Sunday's Hymn: God Is Still On the Throne

Have you started for glory and heaven,
Have you left this old world far behind;
In your heart is the Comforter dwelling,
Can you say, :Praise the Lord, He is mine;”
Have the ones that once walked on the highway,
Gone back, and you seem all alone?
Keep your eyes on the prize, for the home in the skies.
God is still on the throne.

Chorus:
God is still on the throne,
And He will remember His own;
Though trials may press us and burdens distress us,
He never will leave us alone;
God is still on the throne,
He never forsaketh His own;
His promise is true, He will not forget you,
God is still on the throne.

Burdened soul, is your heart growing weary
With the toil and the heat of the day;
Does it seem that your path is more thorny
As you journey along on life’s way?
Go away and in secret before Him
Tell your grief to the Savior alone;
He will lighten your care, for He still answers prayer;
God is still on the throne.

You may live in a tent or a cottage,
Unnoticed by those who pass by;
But a mansion for you He is building
In that beautiful city on high;
It will outshine the wealth and the splendor
Of the richest on earth we have known;
He’s the architect true, and He’s building for you;
God is still on the throne. 

He is coming again, is the promise
To disciples when He went away;
In like manner as He has gone from you,
You will see Him returning some day;
Does His tarrying cause you to wonder,
Does it seem He’s forgotten His own?
His promise is true, He is coming for you;
God is still on the throne. 

—Kittie Louise Suffield

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

• Sion, Haste to Meet Thy King at The Happy Wonderer 

Selected Reading, March 27, 2021

 

I’ve collected a few good links over the past couple of weeks. 

Bible Study

Difficult Texts: Colossians 1:24
What does Paul mean when he says he is filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? Is there “some deficiency in Christ’s atoning work”? 

Biblical Truth

Is God Fair to Judge Us?
This piece by Rebecca McLaughlin is meant for teens, and answers one common question about the Christianity worldview.

Confessions and Catechisms

9 Things You Should Know About the Westminster Confession of Faith
I’ll be linking this one on the Theological Term for the Westminster Confession of Faith: “After nearly 400 years of service, the Westminster Confession of Faith continues to provide Reformed and Presbyterian churches worldwide a vibrant summary of Scripture’s principal teachings. But how has this document, drawn from a strikingly different age, remained equally relevant to today’s church?” 

The Good Name of Our Neighbor
A reflection on what the Westminster Larger Catechism says about the duties of the ninth commandment.

State of Affairs

Losing Forgiveness
“We slam those who are too arrogant to apologise and those who offer weak conditional apologies. But since we give no forgiveness what point is there in apologising? We live in a time where there seems to be no redemption … .”

Theological Term of the Week: Origen

Origen
An early Christian scholar and theologian, who “was a controverial figure in his own time and has continued to be so.”1 He lived from 185-254.

• From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham:

On the one hand, few Christian leaders from the patristic age can compare with Origen for his noble, humble, gentle character, or for his sheer depth and breadth of knowledge, both of Christian theology and pagan philosophy. On the other hand, Origen’s own theology gave rise to the most fierce disputes. He claimed that the Bible alone, not Plato or any pagan philosopher was inspired and that the Bible must be the basis of all Christian thinking. But in fact, Platonism greatly shaped and coloured Origen’s whole outlook. When he interpreted the Bible, he said it had three levels of meaning, which he called the body (the literal meaning), the soul (the moral or ethical meaning) and the spirit (the spiritual meaning). This scheme of interpretation sprang out of Origen’s threefold view of human nature, a view which may itself be rooted in Platonic philosophy. Origen regarded the literal meaning of the Bible as less important than its moral and spiritual meaning. This enabled him to build up his own theology in a way that did not tie it too closely to a literal understanding of the text.

Learn more:

1. Got Questions: Who was Origen of Alexandria?
2. Theopedia: Origen
3. Christian History Magazine: Origen: Friend or Foe? and Origen: Model or Heretic?
4. Christianity Today: Origen

Related terms:  

• Ambrose of Milan
• Apollinarius
• Athanasius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Basil of Caesarea
• Cappadocian fathers
• Columba
• Cyril of Alexandria
• Gregory of Nanzianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Gregory the Great
• Hilary of Poitiers
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Jerome
• John Chrysostom
• Justin Martyr
• Maximus the Confessor
• Monica
• Nestorius
• Patrick
• Pelagius
• Sabellius
• Tertullian
• Venerable Bede, The

Filed under Christian History

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

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