A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

75. Q. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
       A. Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to the law of God.

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This Week in Housekeeping

I guess it’s really last week in housekeeping. Anyhow, here are some recently updated Theological Term posts:

five solas

• This was a really old post, and it needed a lot of formatting changes and a good tweaking of the definition.
• Added a link to GotQuestions.org: What are the five solas?
• Added a link to Michael Horton’s Five Pillars of the Reformation.
• Added a link to a pdf with explanation of the five solas and a study guide from North Ryde Anglican Church.
• Added a link to Tim Challies’ recent infographic on reformed theology.
• Added a link to Steve Lawson’s lecture on The Five Solas of the Reformation (mp3).
• Added related terms sola fide (faith alone), sola gratia (grace alone), sola scriptura (scripture alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), soli Deo gloria (glory to God alone).

KJV onylism

• Added a link to Is the King James Version the Final Authority? by Bill Combs.

creation ex nihilo

• Another old post requiring whole lotta formatting help.
• Added links to Tim Challies’ Essential Theology: Creation, Theopedia’s Creation out of nothing and Creation, Fred Sanders’ Notes for a Doctrine of Creation, and Wayne Grudem’s The Doctrine of Creation, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (mp3s).
• Added related terms decree(s) of God, general revelation, image of God, fall (of man).

Sunday's Hymn: Here, O My Lord I See Thee Face to Face

Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face;
Here would I touch and handle things unseen;
Here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace,
And all my weariness upon Thee lean.

This is the hour of banquet and of song;
This is the heavenly table spread for me;
Here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong
The hallowed hour of fellowship with Thee.

Here would I feed upon the bread of God,
Here drink with Thee the royal wine of Heaven;
Here would I lay aside each earthly load,
Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.

I have no help but Thine; nor do I need
Another arm save Thine to lean upon;
It is enough, my Lord, enough indeed;
My strength is in Thy might, Thy might alone.

I have no wisdom save in Him who is
My Wisdom and my Teacher both in One;
No wisdom can I lack while Thou art wise;
No teaching do I crave save Thine alone.

Mine is the sin, but Thine the righteousness:
Mine is the guilt, but Thine the cleansing blood;
Here is my robe, my refuge, and my peace;
Thy Blood, Thy righteousness, O Lord my God!

Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;
The feast, though not the love, is past and gone.
The bread and wine remove; but Thou art here,
Nearer than ever, still my Shield and Sun.

Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;
Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above,
Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.

—Horatius Bonar

We sing this to a different tune at my church, but the tune below is apparently the more common one.

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

• Faith of Our Fathers! at Field Stone Cottage
• Love Divine, All Loves Excelling at Rosemary at Home
• How Deep the Father’s Love for Us at The Happy Wonderer
• Faith Alone - May 6, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Lord’s Day 19 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 4:4-5 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 19, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Sunday Psalm, a Psalm to Sing - Psalm 46 at Daily On My Way to Heaven

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.