Worship Quotables

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• 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 […]
• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31) (4)
  The one God includes God the Son who brought salvation, God the Father who sent salvation by sending the Son, and God the Holy Spirit who brings salvation into human experience (the Trinity). —Fred Sanders, “Introduction to Christology: Chalcedonian Categories for the Gospel Narrative,” Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, 8
• Tri-unity (Trinity Sunday, May 31) (3)
  The Bible presents the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with different primary activities in relation to the world, for example, in creation, salvation, and sanctification. God the Father gives the Son his name (John 17:11-12; Phil 2:9-11), his words and works (John 5:36; 12:49), authority (Matt 9:6; 28:18; John 17:2), “life in himself” (John 5:26), […]