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

By Justin Wainscott

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Mar 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532679742

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

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Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Hymns & Poems

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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