The Free Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination, will have a plenary assembly this month to consider a report on song and music in worship. I believe this is the text of the report they are considering. David Robertson, a pastor of the church and editor of the denominational journal, The Record, provides the text …
Jared Wilson suspects that “the main reason hymns don’t resonate with people much any more is because we don’t preach the gospel.” Well, the gospel may not be being preached but folk will probably be hearing about: “the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give …
On the subject of the Bible being read during corporate worship, at the beginning of 2009 we started reading one chapter a week (lectio continua), in addition to the passage on which the sermon was based. So far we’ve experienced the blessing of hearing Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, …
Scott Newling commences a projected series of posts on the Sola Panel by recalling that in ‘1 Timothy 4:13, Paul instructs Timothy as follows: “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching”’. The problem he observes is that in Bible believing churches which utilise relaxed and informal models …
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