Sunday Hymn: This Joyful Easter-Tide

This joyful Easter-tide,
Away with sin and sorrow!
My Love, the Crucified,
Hath sprung to life this morrow.

Refrain

Had Christ, that once was slain,
Ne’er burst His three day prison,
Our faith had been in vain;
But now hath Christ arisen,
Arisen, arisen, arisen!

My flesh in hope shall rest,
And for a season slumber;
Till trump from east to west,
Shall wake the dead in number.

Death’s flood hath lost his chill,
Since Jesus crossed the river:
Lover of souls, from ill
My passing soul deliver.

—George R. Wood­ward

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

• Update: Hallelujah Chorus at threegirldad
• O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? at The Crusty Curmudgeon
• Jesus Christ Is Risen Today! at Conjubilant with Song
• Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious at Field Stone Cottage
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today! at Rosemary at Home
• At the Feet of Jesus at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 15 at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 15, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 16:10 at Theology for Girls
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Atonement
• Update: A Prayer for The Resurrection Day 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.

Ah, Holy Jesus

I love this hymn, but I don’t think I’ve ever sung it in a service. Have you? It’d be especially appropriate during the passion season.

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.

Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee.
’Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee!
I crucified Thee.

Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;
For man’s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,
God intercedeth.

For me, kind Jesus, was Thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and Thy life’s oblation;
Thy death of anguish and Thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.

Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,
I do adore Thee, and will ever pray Thee,
Think on Thy pity and Thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.

—Jo­hann Heer­man

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful ahead of time for the Maundy Thursday service I’ll be attending this evening. It’s one of my favorite services of the whole year because it’s so simple and reverent and meaningful.

Looking forward again—and backward, too—I’m thankful that Jesus rose from the dead.

I’m thankful that my son returns home from his trip to Germany and Poland this evening. He’s had fun, he says, but he misses his dog and his little niece. I’m thankful that he had the opportunity to travel, and I’m thankful that he’s anxious to be home, too.

I’m thankful for many more things, many more ways God has provided during this past month or so, things I’m not going to list in public, but I’m recalling them silently as I write. God is good, and I’m thankful for that.

What about you? What are you thankful for?