Book Giveaway: Seasons of the Heart

Seasons of the Heart: A Year of Devotions from One Generation of Women to Another is a collection of 366 devotional writings—one for every day of the year—from godly women of the past, including Susannah Spurgeon, Mary Winslow, Anne Dutton, Frances Ridley Havergal, Ruth Bryan, Anne Steele, Mary Winslow, and more. Donna Kelderman, who compiled these pieces, prays that “the Lord would use these devotionals to correct, admonish, comfort, cheer the downcast, and lead many to the foot of the cross.”

Want to know more? I recommend these two recent reviews:

• Diane Bucknell
• Persis 

Reformation Heritage Books graciously sent me a copy of Seasons of the Heart to give to one of you. Fill out the form below before 11:59pm PST on Thursday, December 5 to enter the giveaway. 

(Men hoping to score a free Christmas gift for their favorite lady can enter, too.)

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Sunday's Hymn: How Great Our Joy

While by the sheep we watched at night,
Glad tidings brought an angel bright.

Refrain

How great our joy! Great our joy!
Joy, joy, joy! Joy, joy, joy!
Praise we the Lord in heaven on high!
Praise we the Lord in heaven on high!

There shall be born, so He did say,
In Bethlehem a Child today.

There shall the Child lie in a stall,
This Child who shall redeem us all.

This gift of God we’ll cherish well,
That ever joy our hearts shall fill.

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

• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel at Graces Daily
• O Wondrous Love at By Grace Alone
• The Advent of Our God at The Happy Wonderer
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent at Gospel Grace
• Tis So Sweet at Theology for Girls
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel at The Upward Call
• Why Christ Came: To Do the Father’s Will at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 48, 2013 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: The long run

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.

The First Commandment

I posted reflections on the first commandment at Out of the Ordinary today.

To keep the commandment to worship the Lord our God and no other god, we need to know him as he has revealed himself. When our view of God is skewed, it isn’t quite the one true God we are holding in our minds when we worship. To the extent that our view of God is different than his self-revelation, we are  “exchanging the truth of God for a lie” (Romans 1:25)—and that’s idolatry. This is why the Westminster Larger Catechism lists ignorance and misapprehensions of God right beside unbelief and misbelief in the list of sins forbidden by the first commandment. 

Read the whole post.