Status Report: March

Sitting…on the couch in the living room with a blanket over my lap. 

Eating…a bowl of the soup my oldest daughter made. She’s a wonderful cook and she makes most things without a recipe. This soup has various kinds of dried beans, sausage, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots and more that I don’t recognize. I have to eat only soft foods after my dental surgery yesterday—I had a bone graft in preparation for an implant—and I have something to eat with each of the prescription meds (painkiller, antibiotic, and a steriod) I take a various times throughout the day. All that to say I’m thankful for the soup. It fits the bill and tastes good.

Waiting…for spring. I must admit, however, that the weather we’ve had lately is winter at it’s very best. 

Liking…that I looked good enough (no swelling) and felt good enough (no pain) to go to church this morning. And thankful for that, too.

Thinking…about the week ahead and the projects I want to work on. First on the list: I’m going to put a coat or three of rubbed polyurethane on the coffee table I painted last week. Then there’s spring cleaning. I just can’t bring myself to do a big weeklong, all day, every day cleaning like my own mother did. Nope, I’d rather break it up into smaller bits and do a couple tasks a week. (And yes, that does make things drag out forever. Oh well.) I also want to make a couple of pillow covers for the couch. Planned for the blog: a review of Eighteen Words by J. I. Packer. 

Reading…not much lately. I think I have a minor case of reader’s block. Tomorrow I’m going to put “read something” on my daily to-do list to see if that works.

Anticipating…tomorrow, and eagerly. I shall be looking after the grandbaby for a while. She is, you know, the cutest baby in the whole wide world. 

Heading…to bed soon. If I can make it up from the couch. My son wants me to go so he can finish watching this week’s episode of The Walking Dead. I am too delicate a flower for such things.

Wishing…you all a goodnight. And a good March.

Copying…Lisa again.

Sunday's Hymn: O Word of God Incarnate

O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth, unchanged, unchanging,
O Light of our dark sky!
We praise Thee for the radiance
That from the hallow’d page,
A lantern to our footsteps,
Shines on from age to age.

The Church from her dear Master
Received the gift divine,
And still that light she lifteth
O’er all the earth to shine.
It is the golden casket
Where gems of truth are stored,
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Christ, the living Word.

It floateth like a banner
Before God’s host unfurl’d;
It shineth like a beacon
Above the darkling world;
It is the chart and compass
That o’er life’s surging sea,
Mid mists and rocks and quicksands,
Still guides, O Christ, to Thee.

O make Thy Church, dear Saviour,
A lamp of burnish’d gold,
To bear before the nations
Thy true light as of old;
O teach Thy wandering pilgrims
By this, their path to trace,
Till, clouds and darkness ended,
They see Thee face to face.

—William W. How

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

• Update: Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty at Still Reforming
• Lord, With Glowing Heart I’d Praise Thee at Fieldstone Cottage
• Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days at The Happy Wonderer
• I Lay My Sins on Jesus at Rosemary at Home
• Lord’s Day 10 at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 10, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Faith Alone - March 2, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Update: Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Annas and the Cruel Narrowness of Broad-Church Liberalism

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.

This Week in Housekeeping

The amount of upkeep on the theological terms accomplished this week was paltry. Still, I’m especially happy to link to Fred Butler’s post two posts on presuppositional apologetics, which is —an easy-to-follow explanation of the difference between presuppositionalism and evidentialism, and a defence of presuppositional apologetics.

presuppositional apologetics

• Added a link to Fred Butler’s recent post Apologetic Methodology in a Nutshell.
• Update: Added a link to Fred Butler’s new post God Fearing Apologetics.
• Fixed some messed up links.

baptismal regeneration

• Fixed a messed up link and removed a dead link.
• Added a link to John Piper’s What Is Baptism and Does It Save?