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False and True Worship in Romans 1:18-25
from BIBLiOTHECA SACRA 157 (January-March 2000)
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The Worship Trajectory and Goal of the Entire Bible (Part 1: Old Testament)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 7 (August 2021) Scott W. Hahn, in his excellent article “Canon, Cult and Covenant:The Promise of Liturgical Hermeneutics” (in Canon andBiblical Interpretation, ed. Craig G. Bartholomew, Scott Hahn,Robin Parry, Christopher Seitz, Al Wolters [Zondervan, 2006]),has given a fascinating overview of the entire spectrum of biblicalrevelation as centered in and heading towards worship. In fact,he shows how each major movement in the scriptural recordculminates in worship.
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A Tale of Two Mountains (John 4) (Part 1)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 5 (June 2021) John 4 is one of the most important passages on worship in the New Testament. Because it’s here in John 4 where Jesus Himself teaches on worship. Zane Hodges wrote: [The Samaritan woman] raised the subject of worship, and the Saviour’s reply was as pregnant a statement on this issue as had ever escaped the lips of man. Indeed, once He had
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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 15) (Conclusion)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 9 (September 2014) 19. SCENES OF WORSHIP IN REVELATION (Part 2) d. A Great Multitude (Revelation 7:9-12 ) After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud
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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 11)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 4 (April 2014) 14. Turning from False to True Worship (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10) Too often we talk about the gospel only in negative terms: that is, how it saves us (and gloriously so!) from sin, death and hell. But it is important to realize and to emphasize that we are not just saved from something, but also to something: to a personal relationship with our
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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 New Testament Worship Passages (Part 2)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 6 (June 2013) 2. INCISIVE PERSPECTIVES ON WORSHIP IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK a. God’s Priority: Heart Worship And Jesus said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me;in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” (7:6-7) Jesus quotes from Isaiah
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