Worship Quotables

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• Both/And
  If the Sunday service aims primarily at evangelism, it will bore the saints. If it aims primarily at education, it will confuse unbelievers. But if it aims at praising the God who saves by grace, it will both instruct insiders and challenge outsiders. —Tim Keller, “Reformed Worship in the Global City” in Worship by the […]
• 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 […]