This Week in Housekeeping

Here are two recently updated theological terms.

providence

• Updated the formatting.
• Tweaked the definition.
• Updated the link to God’s Glorious Providence.
• Updated the link to Louis Berkhof’s Summary of Christian Doctrine, Chapter 10, Providence.
• Updated the link to John Reisenger’s The Sovereignty of God in Providence (mp3).
• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s What Is Providence?
• Added a link to Wayne Grudem’s God’s Providence (pdf).
• Added related terms creation ex nihilo, decree(s) of God, and decretive will.
• Added Filed under God’s Nature and His Work.

active obedience of Christ

• Updated formatting.
• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s Jesus Not Only Died for Us, He Lived for Us.
• Updated the link to The Imputation of the Obedience of Christ Unto the Law Declared and Indicated by John Owen.
• Updated the link to Brian Schwertley’s A Defense of the “Active Obedience” of Jesus Christ in the Justification of Sinners (pdf).
• Added Filed under Christ’s Nature and His Work.

Sunday's Hymn: Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my father,
There is no shadow of turning with thee:
Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
As thou hast been thou for ever wilt be.

“Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!”
Morning by morning new mercies I see:
All I have needed thy hand hath provided—
“Great is thy faithfulness,” Lord unto me!

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside.

—Thomas O. Chisholm

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

• By Faith Alone at Theology for Girls
• Lifting Up Our Hearts - 23 at The Upward Call
• All Who Believe Are Family at Blogging Theologically
• Converting Grace at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 18, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: Unkept vineyards at Pyromaniacs
• Sunday from the Road at The Happy Wonderer

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.

Kickin' It

I’ve posted on bucket lists at Out of the Ordinary this morning.

My friend has a bucket list. She hasn’t told me anything about it except that it doesn’t include sky diving because it’s too risky.

Cancer patients, she said, are encouraged to make bucket lists as part of their therapy. A bucket list can give someone something to live for — a few dreams to keep them going through treatments that can seem worse than dying. And I’d say that, therapy or not, most people with potentially terminal illnesses think about the things they want to do before they die.

Read the whole piece, if you dare.