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    Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems
    Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems
    Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems
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    Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems

    By Justin Wainscott

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    For much of Christian history, pastors not only served as theologians and preachers, but also as poets and hymn writers. They ministered through their preaching and their poetry, their sermons and their songs--laboring to see God's truth planted not only in people's minds, but helping it find its way into their hearts and even onto their lips. They viewed such labors as an artistic and devotional tool of catechesis, one that has largely gone missing over the last few generations.
    But in this new collection of hymns and poems, Justin Wainscott recaptures that rich legacy of pastor-poets, providing God's people with theology that stirs and sings. Whether his poetry pertains to matters of common grace or saving grace, the mundane or the majestic, he gives readers an opportunity to lose themselves in wonder, love, and praise. And a book like this one couldn't come at a better time. In this age of distracted reading marked mainly by skimming and scanning, our souls need the kind of slow, deep reading that poetry rewards.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMar 22, 2019
    ISBN9781532679742
    Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems
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    Justin Wainscott

    Justin Wainscott serves as Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Ministry in the School of Theology and Missions at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He is the author of Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise: Hymns & Poems and co-editor of How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present. Wainscott holds degrees from Union University, Beeson Divinity School, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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      Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise - Justin Wainscott

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      Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

      Hymns & Poems

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      Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

      Hymns & Poems

      Copyright © 2019 Justin Wainscott. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      April 2, 2019

      A Warning to My Readers, Copyright ©

      1987

      by Wendell Berry, from Collected Poems (

      1957

      -

      1982

      ). Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.

      Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright ©

      2001

      by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Hymns

      Blest Is the One Who Does Not Walk (Psalm 1)

      O Lord, How Many Are My Foes (Psalm 3)

      Be Gracious Unto Us, O God (Psalm 67)

      All Nations, Praise the LORD (Psalm 117)

      Out of the Depths I Raise My Cry (Psalm 130)

      O Lord, My Heart’s Not Lifted Up (Psalm 131)

      Praise to God, the Three in One

      Sing Highest Praises to Our King

      Immortal God in Mortal Flesh

      All People of the Coming King

      O Jesus Christ, Our King and Priest

      Christ’s Atoning Wounds

      How Slow and Dull of Heart Are We

      Jesus Is Risen, He’s Risen Indeed

      To Jesus Christ, Our Living Lord

      The Grace of God, So Vast and Free

      By Faith

      What Hope Have We, Before Our God?

      To Christ My Praise Shall Ever Be

      Sweet, Melodious Praise

      Sinners’ Never-Ceasing Praise

      Salvation’s Tolling Bell

      Jesus, Jesus, Faithful Friend

      Lord Most High, Show Me Love

      Baptized in Union with Our Lord

      The Word of God Shall Ever Stand

      What Joy to Know the One True God

      Christ Has Saved Us, Christ Alone

      O Sing of Christ, My Savior, Sing

      Additional Stanza of Holy, Holy, Holy

      Additional Stanza of He Will Hold Me Fast

      Additional Stanza of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

      Additional Stanza of The Church’s One Foundation

      Additional Stanza of Our Great God

      Poems

      Artists

      Shared Wonder

      How Writers Write

      Maternity

      A Little Mirror of My Own Depravity

      Grown Man Crying

      Motherhood Briefly Summarized

      This Verbal Tribute We Now Raise

      Simple Pleasures?

      Conversation as Transformation

      On Poetry

      Music and Memory

      The Mercy of the Mundane

      Silence Has a Voice

      Shade Trees Need Roots

      Lord, Break the Silence Long Endured

      The Prophets’ Single Note

      A Symphony of Sweet Delight

      Christmas Is a Canvas

      Manly Tears

      Anxiety

      Take Me to Gethsemane

      Enduring the Wilderness

      Resurrecting Ebenezer

      Winter in My Soul

      A Mid-March Musing

      An Ode to My First Love

      At the Corner of Clark and Addison

      Death Brings Resurrection

      As I Looked Out at the Sea

      Strangely Beautiful Grace

      And Such Is the Grace of God

      Grace and Gravity

      Prayer Pondered

      A Pilgrim Prayer

      An Indictment on Evangelical Worship

      Preaching Is Preceded by Listening

      New Morning Mercies

      The Joyous Song of Mercy

      I Once Was Dead in Sin and Strife

      True Repentance and Contrition

      Theological Antonyms

      Liquid Love

      The Living Need the Dying

      The Earthly End of a Life Well Lived

      Strangely Familiar

      Resurrection Morning (or The Very First Easter)

      "Justin Wainscott is a rarity—a faithful biblical expositor with superb pastoral gifts who is also a skilled poet and an excellent hymn writer. Here we have some

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