Sunday's Hymn: We Gather Together To Ask the Lord's Blessing

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens his will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:
Sing praises to his Name; he forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning:
Thou, Lord, wast at our side: all glory be thine!

We all do extol thee, thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that thou still our Defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation:
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

—Ad­ri­a­nus Va­ler­i­us

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

• Come Thou Almighty King at The Happy Wonderer 

Sunday's Hymn: We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator,
In grateful devotion our tribute we bring.
We lay it before thee, we kneel and adore thee,
We bless thy holy name, glad praises we sing.

We worship thee, God of our fathers, we bless thee;
Through life’s storm and tempest our guide hast thou been.
When perils o’ertake us, escape thou wilt make us,
And with thy help, O Lord, our battles we win.

With voices united our praises we offer,
To thee, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise.
Thy strong arm will guide us, our God is beside us,
To thee, our great Redeemer, for ever be praise.

—Julia B. Cory

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

• Day by Day at The Happy Wonderer 

Theological Term of the Week: Apostolic Fathers

apostolic fathers
“[T]he authors of the earliest Christian writings which came next after the New Testament.”1

• From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham, page 58: 

The name [apostolic fathers] was invented in the 17th Century, when scholars believed that these early Christian writers all had direct personal contact with the apostles; most historians today think that only a few of them did… The age of the apostolic fathers stretched only from about AD 95 to 140.

Learn more:

1. Got Questions: Who were the Apostolic Fathers?
2. Theopedia: Apostolic Fathers

Related terms:

• Ambrose of Milan
• Apollinarius
• Athanasius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Basil of Caesarea
• Cappadocian fathers
• Columba
• Cyril of Alexandria
• Gregory of Nanzianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Gregory the Great
• Hilary of Poitiers
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Jerome
• John Chrysostom
• Justin Martyr
• Maximus the Confessor
• Monica
• Nestorius
• Origen
• Patrick
• Pelagius
• Sabellius
• Tertullian
• Venerable Bede, The

Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.

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