Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 9)

Christ and Worship, Glory of God, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 2  (February 2014) 8. YES AND AMEN: God’s Program in Two Words (2 Corinthians 1:20) The Gospel in Miniature Nestled in the opening strains of Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians is a statement which plumbs the depths of God’s redemptive work through Christ and the relationship with Him which we enjoy because of it. The Context The context finds Paul addressing the charge of […]

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 8)

Church, Edification, Glory of God, Grace, Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 1  (January 2014) 7. PRINCIPLES OF WORSHIP IN 1 CORINTHIANS a. The Principle of Grace For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 7)

Christmas, Church, Fall, Glory of God, Heaven, New Testament, Romans

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 6)

Creation, Glory of God, Gospel, New Testament, Revelation and Response, Romans

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 10  (October 2013) 5. PAUL AS THEOLOGIAN AND WORSHIPER (Romans 11:33-36) Paul’s explanation of the ramifications of the fall (1:18-32; see last month’s Worship Notes) and the ensuing blackness of sin that has engulfed the human race (3:9-18,23) makes the gospel shine all the more brightly as he expounds on it in the ensuing chapters. He shows how the gospel is indeed “the power of

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 5)

Fall, False Worship/Idolatry, Genesis, Glory of God, Gospel, New Testament, Romans

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 3)

Christ and Worship, Christmas, Glory of God, Heart Worship, Music, Praise, Psalms, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 7 (July 2013) 3. WORSHIP SONGS, ATTITUDES AND ACTS IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE  a.     Christmas Canticles (Luke 1–2) A canticle is defined by the dictionary as “a song or chant, esp. a hymn containing words derived from the Bible.” These four inspired and poetic psalms of praise, uttered by different figures in Luke’s account of the birth of Christ, have been set to music

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The Supremacy of God’s Name in the Old Testament

Faith, Glory of God, Name(s) of God, Old Testament, Praise, Prayer

Worship in the Old Testament, 18th and last in the series WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 4 (April 2013) You have exalted above all thingsYour name and Your word. (Psalm 138:2)  “I am the LORD; that is My name;I will not give my glory to another.” (Isaiah 42:8) 1. THE NATURE OF GOD’S NAME As is well known, names in Scripture carry much more weight than mere appellation or identification: they

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Important Old Testament Worship Passages (Part 4)

Glory of God, Heaven, Holiness, Old Testament, Praise, Revelation and Response

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 17th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 3 (March 2013) 18. Isaiah 6:1-8 Revelation and Response In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. “The earthly throne was empty, but not the heavenly one!” (Joseph Lee) A. W. Tozer observed: Every glimpse of heaven shows [God’s creatures] worshiping: Ezekiel 1:1-5, the creatures

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Important Old Testament Worship Passages (Part 2)

Glory of God, Heart Worship, Music, Old Testament, Tabernacle/Temple

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 15th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 1 (January 2013) 4. Exodus 3:12; 4:23; 7:16; 8:1,20; 9:1,13; 10:3 (see also 10:7,8,11,24; 12:31) God redeems the nation of Israel so that they may worship Him. (The translation in these verses is sometimes “serve” Him/Me, with the sense of worship; as in Exodus 23:24: “you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them.”)

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