Tag Archives: Discipleship

There’s a cost?

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Recent post by a new blogger, Derrick Victor. Well said — and on a crucial topic. I preached on this subject last week, including these “famous” comments from Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship: ” Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession…. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” p.47 His comments on “Costly Grace” in following passages are also worth reading.

A HYMN FOR TODAY – The Master Has Come

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

The Master has come, and He calls us to follow
The track of the footprints He leaves on our way;
Far over the mountain and through the deep hollow,
The path leads us on to the mansions of day.

The Master has called us, the children who fear Him,
Who march ‘neath Christ’s banner, His own little band;
We love Him and seek Him, we long to be near Him,
And rest in the light of His beautiful land.

The Master has called us, in life’s early morning,
With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod;
We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning,
To cast in our lot with the people of God.

The Master has called us, His sons and His daughters;
We plead for His blessing and trust in His love;
And through the green pastures, beside the still waters,
He’ll lead us at last to His kingdom above.

12.11.12.11.D – Sarah Doudney, 1871

Tune: ASH GROVE – Jones’ Bardic Museum, 1802

arr. Katherine K. Davis – 1939

#637 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012

A HYMN FOR TODAY – O For a Closer Walk With God

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

O for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heav’nly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!

Where is the blessedness I knew
When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul-refreshing view
Of Jesus and His word?

The dearest idol I have known,
Whate’er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee.

So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

CM (8.6.8.6) – William Cowper, 1779

Tune: BEATITUDO – John B. Dykes, 1868

#631 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012