Brunch. 
Rock Cake Bakery, Gilgandra
Brunch.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Okay Everyone, I’ve Stopped For The Night
In West Wyalong.
Are you all happy now?
It does have an Indian restaurant.
mmmmm Indian.
On a less happy note, I left my pillow in Adelaide.
Border Crossing At Tooleybuc
I could just say ‘Tooleybuc’ over and over again. 
Border Crossing Mallee Highway
Sign could use a clean up, Victoria. 
Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind – Sunday Songs
A long time ago, when my mother was attending a Baptist church the fourth verse of Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind was used as their concluding doxology each week.
Hearing it brings back some pleasant memories of a time long past.
The hymn is not widely used these days.
Now, the doxology verse mentioned above was sung to a tune called REST which is more usual in the USA.
More traditionally the tune to which the hymn is sung is called REPTON.
The lyrics.
1
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
reclothe us in our rightful mind,
in purer lives thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2
In simple trust like theirs who heard
beside the Syrian sea
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow thee.
3
O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
4
Drop thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
5
Breathe through the heats of our desire
thy coolness and thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
To make up for not finding the tune I want, here’s Katherine Jenkins singing the wrong tune.
Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 30
Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 30
Q & A 57
Q Which is the fourth commandment?
A The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservent, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.*1
Q & A 58
Q What is required in the fourth commandment?
A The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.*2
Q & A 59
Q Which day of the seven has God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
A From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath;3 and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.4
Q & A 60
Q How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days;5 and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship,6 except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.*7
Q & 61
Q What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
A The fourth commandment forbids the omission, or careless performance, of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.*8
Q & A 62
Q What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
A The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments,9 his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day.10
*1 Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15.
*2 Exodus 31:13, 16-17.
*3 Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:11.
*4 Mark 2:27-28; Acts 20:7; Corinthians 16:2; Revelation 1:10.
*5 Exodus 20:10; Nehemiah 13:15-22.
*6 Exodus 20:8; Leviticus 23:3; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7.
*7 Matthew 12:1-13
*8 Nehemiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 58:13-14; Amos 8:4-6.
*9 Exodus 20:9; Leviticus 23:3.
*10 Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17.
Our Only Rational Activity
“Sometimes the Father may box us in, place us in a situation in which, one by one, all our secondary helps and supports are taken from us, in order that, defenseless, we may lean on His mercy alone – prayer. Once we see this, we will no longer regard prayer as a pious cop-out but as our only rational activity.”
Dale Ralph Davis. 1 Samuel.
