It’s What Inside that Counts!

Heart Worship, Old Testament

WORSHIP NOTESVolume 20, No. 9 (September 2025) When many of us think about worship in the Old Testament, our minds go first to the Tabernacle/Temple and its sacrifices, rituals, ceremonies, and festivals—the external trappings of worship under the Mosaic Covenant. However, these externals are actually of secondary importance when it comes to the worship that God desires from his people under the Old Covenant (and New Covenant!). He is looking […]

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A Tale of Two Mountains (John 4) (Part 2)

Centrality of Worship, Christ and Worship, Heart Worship, Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Priority of Worship, Private Worship, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 6 (July 2021)   Last month we saw how Jesus, in His encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well, breaks down geographical barriers (John 4:3-4), ethnic and social barriers (4:5-9), and spiritual barriers (4:10-15). Now we come to the core of Jesus’ teaching on worship, and see how He breaks down the religious barriers between the Jews and the Samaritans. JESUS BREAKS DOWN RELIGIOUS BARRIERS As

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NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM: Seeing Things the Way God Does

Heart Worship, Priority of Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 12 (December 2019) And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that He answered them well, asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all

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Worship from the Heart (part 3)

Biblical and Theological Studies, Heart Worship, New Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 8 (August 2019) The Principle at Work New Testament Examples “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.”“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say

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Worship from the Heart (part 2)

David, Heart Worship, Old Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 7 (July 2019)   The Principle at Work Further Old Testament Examples Genesis 4 /After the entry of sin into the human race through the Fall in Genesis 3, the very next chapter relates the first murder, of Abel by his brother Cain (and it takes place in the context of worship: worship has already been corrupted; cf. Romans 1:25): In the course of time Cain

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Worship from the Heart (part 1)

Heart Worship, Old Testament, Tabernacle/Temple

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 6 (June 2019) What Matters Most When Christians think about Old Testament worship, the tendency is to automatically invoke images of the complex system of Israel’s worship centering on its ornate Tabernacle, with its priests, ritual sacrifices and festivals. While this system was instituted and carried out according to the explicit and detailed commands of God (communicated to Moses on Mount Sinai), we miss God’s

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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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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 2)

False Worship/Idolatry, Heart Worship, New Testament

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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