Give Thanks and Were I To Cross From Land To Land (Psalm 139) are the songs of preparation. Worship begins with Salvation Belongs To Our God. Our prayer of adoration and confession will celebrate the acceptance we have with God through the Lord Jesus Christ and fruit in our lives which his love produces in …
More from Lig Duncan on the subject of worship. (Previously) An excerpt: …isn’t focusing on “how” we worship a little legalistic? Worship is a matter of the heart, right?, and so doesn’t focusing on the outward manner of worship get us off on the wrong track. Well, I hear that objection and I am not …
This blog post reflects on a booklet by Christopher Ash on listening to sermons. From a longer quote this thought resonates about preaching being a means of grace in gathered worship. “When we listen to an MP3 recording of a sermon, we are not listening to preaching, but to an echo of preaching that happened …
This is an article from 2001 in which Geoff Thomas paints an imaginary scenario and then addresses a pretty common situation for most churches. The new version of the regulative principle seems to be how closely worship resembles a Wiggles concert. ht Thomas’ introduction: An elder preceded the minister into the pulpit and then came …
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