Last week, we introduced materials that are available for children during our Sunday morning service. These materials are located on the welcome table, and are designed to help our children be engaged during the service. We want to train our kids to love corporate worship, and to love the Word of God. It is our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Worship’
31 Jul
Worship God 08 – Emotion in the Psalms
This week I am attending the Worship God 08 conference in Gaithersburg, MD. The theme of the conference is using the Psalms in worship. This conference is put on by Sovereign Grace Ministries, and led by Bob Kauflin. I figured since I am here, and you are there, I should give you updates on what [...]
23 Jul
Daniel and the Lion’s Den, What’s the Point?
Daniel and the lion’s den is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible. The popularity of the story can easily cause us to miss the message. Like most of Daniel so far, this story is about worship. In Daniel 6, Daniel is continuing in faithful obedience to worship the one true God. Then, [...]
16 Jul
Idolatry and a Fiery Furnace
When you think of idolatry, what do you think of? Some tribal setting involving bowing down and statues? This is certainly a form of idolatry, but it can be far more subtle than that. Daniel 3 talks about idolatry in the extreme form, but we can make connections that will help us sniff out the [...]
11 Jul
More Elements of Corporate Worship – Giving
Giving is worship, or at least, it can be worship. It is not worship when we worry about our money in light of our giving. It is not worship when we give tentatively, based on a dutiful standard. Giving is worship when we do it freely, and we can give freely because we are satisfied [...]
10 Jul
More Elements of Corporate Worship – Public Scripture Reading
We have talked about preaching as part of our Sunday meeting. Preaching is worship in that it is so centered around the Word of God. The Word must be central in our worship not only in preaching, but also in reading. “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to [...]
8 Jul
More Elements of Corporate Worship – Ordinances
In the sermon on corporate worship, I mentioned that there were several elements of corporate worship that we weren’t going to discuss. We will look at some of these elements on the blog over the next few days. Today we will look at the ordinances.
The two ordinances of the church are: baptism and the Lord’s [...]
24 Jun
Luther on Worship
I was reading on worship and I came across this quote from Martin Luther on the nature of worship. Luther is making the point that worship doesn’t just happen in meeting places on Sunday mornings, but that all of life should be worship. Of course, he says it in the amusing way that only Luther [...]
