A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

95. Q. What is adoption?
       A. It is God’s goodness in receiving sinful rebels as his beloved children.

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Sunday Hymn: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

I heard the voice of Jesus say, Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast.
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad;
I found in Him a resting place, and He has made me glad.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, Behold, I freely give
The living water; thirsty one, stoop down, and drink, and live.
I came to Jesus, and I drank of that life giving stream;
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, and now I live in Him.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, I am this dark world’s Light;
Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, and all thy day be bright.
I looked to Jesus, and I found in Him my Star, my Sun;
And in that light of life I’ll walk, till traveling days are done.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, My Father’s house above
Has many mansions; I’ve a place prepared for you in love.
I trust in Jesus—in that house, according to His word,
Redeemed by grace, my soul shall live forever with the Lord.

—Horatius Bonar

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

• Update: Children of the Heavenly Father at Graces Daily
• Update: Nearer My God to Thee at By Grace Alone
• Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at Rosemary at Home
• This Is the Air I Breathe at Gospel Grace
• Great God, as Seasons Disappear at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 40 at Tried With Fire 
• Lord’s Day 40, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Faith Alone - September 30, 2012 at The Upward Call
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: The Best Thing
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 9:9-10 at Theology for Girls

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: Doctrine of Scripture

Its Sufficiency
What Does Sola Scriptura Mean? It means that Scripture is

the perfect and only standard of spiritual truth, revealing infallibly all that we must believe in order to be saved and all that we must do in order to glorify God. That—no more, no less—is what sola Scriptura means.

(John MacArthur at Ligonier Ministres Blog)

And from Dr. James Montgomery Boice, a sermon on the sufficiency of Scripture: 

Do we really believe that God has given us what we need in this book? Or do we think we have to supplement the Bible with other man-made things? Do we need sociological techniques to do evangelism? Do we need psychology and psychiatry for Christian growth? Do we need extra-biblical signs or miracles for guidance?

(Effectual Grace)

Its Perspicuity
Robert Shaw discusses the perspicuity of Scripture:

If the Scriptures were unintelligible to common Christians, and the interpretation of the Church were necessary to discover their meaning, then such Christians would have no foundation upon which a divine faith could rest.  Their faith must be ultimately resolved into the testimony of men; but human testimony, being fallible, cannot be the ground of an infallible persuasion

Quoted from An Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith at The Reformed Reader.

The Canon
Now in one place, all of Michael Kruger’s 10 Misconceptions About the New Testament Canon posts (Canon Fodder).