Worshipping With Calvin (Terry Johnson, EP Books, 2014) seeks to bed what may prove to be the fragile roots of a contemporary reformed and calvinistic resurgence in the liturgical soil of the reforms to corporate worship which occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is not to say he argues for worship which mimics …
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 24 62. Q. But why cannot our good works be our righteousness before God, or at least a part of it? A. Because the righteousness which can stand before the judgment of God must be absolutely perfect and wholly in conformity with the divine Law. But even our best works …
Songs of preparation are O LORD, Our Lord, In All The Earth (Psalm 8) and Jesus Is Lord. Worship commences with a great hymn of the Trinity Come Now, Almighty King. The prayer of adoration and confession will praise God for the revelation of Himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the works of redemption …
Paul Clark publishes a short post by Mark Edwards on using both screens and hymn books at different times to support congregation singing. I grew up in a church that used word-only hymn books and simply learned all the tunes by ear over time. Most of the churches in my denomination were the same, so …
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