Worship Quotables

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• Wonderful Words of Life
  Scripture was written by the Holy Spirit that it might serve him in guiding the church, in the perfecting of the saints, in building up the body of Christ. In it God daily comes to his people. In it he speaks to his people, not from afar but from nearby. In it he reveals himself, […]
• Glorified Life
  He became man and lived in this world. He ate and drank, and this means that the world of which He partook, the very food of our world became His body, His life. But His life was totally, absolutely eucharistic—all of it was transformed into communion with God and all of it ascended into heaven. […]
• The Nations Invited
  We are so used to Psalms [for example: 22:27; 45:17; 47:1; 66:8; 67:3–5; 86:9; 96:7; 102: 15, 22; 117:1; 148:1] and prophets inviting Gentiles to worship Yahweh that we forget how innovative it was in the time of David. In the songs and hymns recorded earlier in Scripture, Gentiles are included only as enemies to […]
• Jacob’s Ladder
  The foundation of Christian worship is our Lord Himself, as the One who is both the divine Word and man’s perfect response to that Word. . . . Thus our aim will be to relate worship at every point to the revelation and redemption which God brought about in Christ, and to show how He […]