Visiting a church in Sydney this evening I got to unexpectedly meet an old friend, meet a new one, hear an interesting sermon, oand sing a range of songs including this one from 1996.
Bryson Smith and Philip Percival’s At The Cross.
I didn’t really expect to find a track of this but here’s one from YouTube, a nice piano and vocal recording.

The lyrics:
1.
At the cross God demonstrates His love for us
While we were sinners Jesus came to die
So by His blood we could be justified
2
At the cross God demonstrates that He is just
Unpunished sins could not be overlooked
So Jesus took them on Himself
Chorus
So be not ashamed of the cross
It brings salvation to all who believe
God is revealed guilt is removed
Forgiveness can now be received
So be not ashamed of the cross
Tell of its power to all who will hear
Great is our joy glory is ours
From death we can now be set free
3
At the cross God demonstrates His endless grace
He chose to send His precious only Son
To punish Him for sins we’ve done
Chorus

Words and Music: Bryson Smith | Philip Percival

© Words: 1996 Emu Music Australia, Inc.
Music: 1996 Percival, Philip (Admin. by Philip Gordon Percival)

Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 6

16.
Q. Why must he be a true and righteous man?
A. Because God’s righteousness requires that man who has sinned should make reparation for sin, but the man who is himself a sinner cannot pay for others.

17.
Q. Why must he at the same time be true God?
A. So that by the power of his divinity he might bear as a man the burden of God’s wrath, and recover for us and restore to us righteousness and life.

18.
Q. Who is this mediator who is at the same time true God and a true and perfectly righteous man?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is freely given to us for complete redemption and righteousness.

19.
Q. Whence do you know this?
A. From the holy gospel, which God himself revealed in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, afterward proclaimed through the holy patriarchs and prophets and foreshadowed through the sacrifices and other rites of the Old Covenant, and finally fulfilled through his own well-beloved Son.

I’ve never had a special car ride from the tarmac to the terminal (in order to go out and come back in through security) at Melbourne airport before today.

Our first departure was delayed because the flight crew had finished late last night. We arrived in Melbourne thirty minutes before the connecting flight’s departure time.

Rex Airlines did very well.

Looking out the front window at Mount Gambier in all its 190m (620ft) stature made reading this article on Today I Found out about the difference between hills and mountains all the more intriguing.

Apparently there are objective matters of height, and more subjective matters of prominence in play.

Not content with one contentious subject the article then turns to the matter of what makes a body of water a lake or a sea.