Worship Quotables

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• Ascended on High (Ascension Day, May 14)
  Never speak about the incarnation as a past event. The doctrine of the ascension should shape your Christmas preaching as much as your Eastertide preaching. —Laura Smit, “The Incarnation Continues,” Reformed Worship 79)
• Second Chance
  There are two charcoal fires in the last chapters of John’s gospel, and Peter is at both of them. He warms himself by the charcoal fire in the court of the high priest. There he denies Jesus, and when Jesus looks at him across the courtyard he goes out and weeps bitterly. When Jesus rises […]
• Past, Present, Future
  On any given Lord’s Day, the worshiping church in the present fleeting moment grasps both the past (by commemorating through anamnesis the Lord’s resurrection and all that served to prepare for it) and the future (by affirming through prolepsis the fulfilled reign of God, the Day of the Lord). Both of these are made present […]
• The Whole Picture
  It was not that the disciples of Jesus were more stupid than other human beings and therefore “just didn’t get it.” It was that neither they nor we can “get it” until we know how the story ends. The birth, ministry, and death of Jesus must be understood in light of the resurrection or the […]