Round the Sphere Again: Three Ways to Serve God

• Give a greeting and smile. You never know how God might use it (Writing and Living).
  
  
• Take a meal to someone who needs it. Judy at Mennonite Girls Can Cook has some menu suggestions. 
  
  
• Give a gift to support Monergism.com, a website providing excellent online resources for Christians, and a site I use regularly as I put together my Thelogical Term of the Week posts. From John Hendryx:

  The Lord has been gracious to us through you for more than 12 years of ministry at Monergism.com. Thanks you for all your continued prayers and financial support.

  As most of you already know the Lord provided the funding necessary in 2011 to initiate phase II of the website development of Monergism.com. We thank the Lord for the generous donations of our friends and visitors to the site to make that possible. The work is already well underway to make all the 66 books of Scripture much more accessible.  We are eager to share with you the finished product which, Lord willing, will be done in two or three months time.  
  
  Understandably the economy has made donations difficult for many of you.  This is evident since we have fallen into the red in our normal fund raising budget by about $14,000 so far this year.  We need these funds to continue making Monergism.com an even better resource for visitors worldwide. 

  If you use the site frequently, and desire to see the influence of the content of monergism.com grow, please take the time now to financial support us. if you are in a position to help for the first time, or to raise your monthly giving a little more, a gift of any amount would be much appreciated. 

Sunday's Hymn: Amidst Us Our Beloved Stands

Amidst us our Belovèd stands,
And bids us view His piercèd hands;
Points to the wounded feet and side,
Blest emblems of the Crucified.

What food luxurious loads the board,
When at His table sits the Lord!
The wine how rich, the bread how sweet,
When Jesus deigns the guests to meet!

If now, with eyes defiled and dim,
We see the signs, but see not Him;
O may His love the scales displace,
And bid us see Him face to face!

Our former transports we recount,
When with Him in the holy mount,
These cause our souls to thirst anew,
His marred but lovely face to view.

Thou glorious Bridegroom of our hearts,
Thy present smile a heav’n imparts!
Oh lift the veil, if veil there be,
Let every saint Thy beauties see!

—Charles H. Spurgeon

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

• Update: O Word of God Incarnate at Field Stone Cottage
• Sweet Is Thy Mercy, Lord at Rosemary at Home
• The Glory of the Spring How Sweet at The Happy Wonderer
• Beside the Still Waters at Conjubilant With Song
• Faith Alone - April 29, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Lord’s Day 18 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 4:2-3 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 18, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Update: Praying the Psalms - Psalm 15 at Daily On My Way to Heaven
• Update: Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Something to Keep in Mind in These Times of Apostasy

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.

Round the Sphere Again: The Saturday Fun Edition

Creamy
Name Campbell’s eight main cream soups in three minutes. I missed two, and I was never gonna get them in a million years. I’ll tell you which ones I missed in the first comment below, but don’t peek until you’ve finished the quiz yourself, okay? And while you’re down there in the comments, tell me how you did (mental_floss Blog).

Cool
Because every kid should play with their food. 

Cute
Back in January I tweeted a link to a live cam where you could see (and hear) a mama black bear giving birth to twin cubs. The babies have grown, the family has left the den, and mama wants the cubs to come with her as she forages for food for herself, but they’re not cooperating.

These twins have a tighter bond than most bear cubs, say the researchers. As you can see, they love to play with each other.