Sunday, June 30, 2024

Let All on Earth Their Voices Raise

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39 Let All on Earth Their Voices Raise 1 Let all the earth their voices raise,    To sing the choicest psalm of praise,    To sing and bles...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

I Sing the Mighty Power of God

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37 I Sing the Mighty Power of God 1. I sing the almighty power of God,    that made the mountains rise,    that spread the flowing seas abr...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Luther and union with Christ

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This emphasis on the presence of Christ, and union with Christ in faith, is central to Luther’s theology from the very beginning. In a favor...

The Lord Our God Is Clothed with Might

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32 The Lord Our God Is Clothed with Might 1. The Lord our God is clothed with might,    The winds obey His will;    He speaks, and in His h...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Augustine and grace

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Throughout these final treatises: Augustine insists again that God’s grace is not grace unless it is “gratuitous” (e.g., Praed. Sanct. 43: n...

Great God Attend, While Zion Sings

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25 Great God Attend, While Zion Sings 1. Great God! Attend, while Zion sings    The joy that from Thy presence springs;    To spend one day...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Augustine on grace

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Augustine notes the impossibility of frustrating the will of God, for “God has mercy on no one in vain” ( Ad Simpl. 1.2.13). We see here th...

Come Let Us Tune Our Loftiest Song

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23 Come Let Us Tune Our Loftiest Song 1 Come, let us tune our loftiest song    And raise to Christ our joyful strain;    Worship and thanks...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

One does not entail the other five

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It is clear from such examples that there is much at stake in the definition of “grace,” which is subject to strong and interested acts of in...

Before Jehovah's Awful Throne

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22 Before Jehovah's Awful Throne 1 Before Jehovah's aweful throne,    ye nations, bow with sacred joy;    know that the Lord is God...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Grace a la carte

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But as our classification has shown, there is more than one way in which gift/ grace can be perfected, and each of the six forms of perfectio...

All People That on Earth Do Dwell

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21 All People That on Earth Do Dwell 1 All people that on earth do dwell,    sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;    him serve with mi...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones

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19 Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones 1 Ye watchers and ye holy ones,    bright seraphs, cherubim, and thrones,    raise the glad strain, Allelui...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

How Great Thou Art

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17 How Great Thou Art 1 Oh Lord, my God    When I, in awesome wonder    Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made    I see the stars, I h...
Friday, June 21, 2024

It's all about … power

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Such claims about God are rarely theological niceties: they serve the interests (polemical or material) of those who deploy them. This is to...

Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above

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15 Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above 1. Praise the Lord who reigns above,    And keeps His court below;    Praise the holy God of love,    A...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Taking it to the extreme

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Rhetoric often tends towards extremes, absolutes, and disjunctions, employing polarity or paradox to set potentially compatible notions into...

Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty

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13 Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty 1 Open now thy gates of beauty,    Zion, let me enter there    Where my soul in joyful duty    Waits on Him...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

A modern construct?

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For our present purposes, what is important to note is that Derrida’s construction of the impossibility of the gift is based on the premise ...

Let all the world in every corner sing

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10 Let all the world in every corner sing 1 Let all the world in every corner sing,    "My God and King!"    The heav'ns are ...