A Few People

born on March 11 (aka Johnny Appleseed Day)

• Dorothy Gish
  
• Lawrence Welk
  
• Ezra Jack Keats
  
• Jesse Jackson, Jr.
  
• My mother
• Update: Leslie’s dad
  

born in Tennessee

• Davy Crockett
• Roy Acuff 
• Chet Atkins
• Greg and Duane Allman
• Dolly Parton
• Minnie Pearl
  
• Not my mother, although she did give birth in Tennessee.
  

A Post In Which I Boast

I came to Christ when I was very young. I can’t remember exactly how old I was, but I do know that it was before I started kindergarten, and I do remember the circumstances. I was a little girl, standing on the back pew of small church in rural Idaho, listening (believe it or not!) to the sermon.

I don’t remember the whole sermon, but I do remember that somewhere within it there was an explanation of Christ’s death on the cross and I was transfixed. I saw an image of my Saviour on the cross, suffering for me, and at that instant I understood that I needed what was accomplished for me there. And more than that: I knew that I wanted, above everything else, what was provided for me there.

 

Since I was only 4 or 5, I really shouldn’t have understood that sermon at all. It wasn’t the children’s sermon; it was the regular adult sermon and a pretty deeply doctrinal one at that. Yet I heard truths of Christ and the cross, put it all together and saw something wonderful: the beauty of Christ and the wisdom of the cross.

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Sunday's Hymn: The Work of Christ

This week’s hymn is another of Keith and Kristyn Getty’s hymns. This one emphasises both kinds of  reconcilation that comes from the cross. On the cross, Christ reconciled God and the sinner, but he also the reconciled forgiven sinners with each other.

Beneath the Cross of Jesus 

Beneath the cross of Jesus
I find a place to stand,
And wonder at such mercy
That calls me as I am;
For hands that should discard me
Hold wounds which tell me, “Come.”
Beneath the cross of Jesus
My unworthy soul is won.

Beneath the cross of Jesus
His family is my own—
Once strangers chasing selfish dreams,
Now one through grace alone.
How could I now dishonor
The ones that You have loved?
Beneath the cross of Jesus
See the children called by God.

Beneath the cross of Jesus—
The path before the crown—
We follow in His footsteps
Where promised hope is found.
How great the joy before us
To be His perfect bride;
Beneath the cross of Jesus
We will gladly live our lives.

More on the reconciliation of forgiven children with each other:

• Purposes of Christ’s Death, No. 6
  

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• Jesus Christ My Sure Defense at joythruChrist
  
• The Fifth Sunday in Lent at Magic Statistics
• Advent Tells Us Christ Is Near at The Happy Wonderer
• How Sweet and Awful Is the Place at Hiraeth
  
• When I Survery the Wondrous Cross at Seasoning of the Heart
• Poor, Weak and Worthless Though I Am at Whatever Things…
• Fountain of Never Ceasing Grace at Field Stone Cottage
• If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee at Fish and Cans
• Lord’s Day 10, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
  

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday 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.