Everybody Worships

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 1 (January 2016) As has often been pointed out, the problem is NOT that there are people in this world who do not worship. Rather it is that so many worship the wrong thing. Everybody worships something. COMPETING WORSHIPS As Max Lucado has observed: “You don’t need what Dorothy found. Remember her discovery in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? She and her trio followed the yellow-brick road […]

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 7)

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 12  (December 2013) 6. FROM GLORY TO GLORY: God’s Glory in Romans (and in Christmas)  The Fall For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 5)

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 9  (September 2013) 5. WORSHIP AND THE FALL IN ROMANS (Romans 1:18-25) Sometimes, when students at the schools I visit overseas learn that I have come to teach a course on worship, they ask (or at least think) questions like: “A whole course on worship?? What’s he going to talk about for one or two weeks?” But they soon see, as we delve deeply into

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Important Old Testament Worship Passages (Part 1)

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 14th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 7, No. 12 (December 2012) 1.  Genesis 1–3   Worship in Creation and the Fall Man was created with the unique ability to worship his Creator. Actually, all created things are called to give Him praise—i.e, testify to His greatness (see Psalm 148). But man is to lead the way: God made man in His own image to

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Worship in Old Testament History (Part 1)

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 4th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 7, No. 1 (January 2012) For the next several months we will survey the practice and themes of worship found in Israel’s history as recorded in the pages of the Old Testament. As Steven Hawthorne points out: The Bible is the astounding drama of God’s love drawing the worship of the nations. . . . God reveals

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