WORSHIP NOTES Volume 17, No. 8 (August 2022) Sinclair Ferguson, the great Scottish theologian, and preacher, said in a sermon: A friend of mine led a tour last year to the seven churches of the book of Revelation. I said, “Did you go to the island of Patmos?” “No,” he said, “I asked the people about going to Patmos, and they said, ‘It would take you a day to […]
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 1 (January 2019) ETERNAL PRAISE AND THE NATIONS(Revelation 7) (part 2) Last month we considered God’s heart FOR the nations. This month we will see how that results in: ETERNAL PRAISE FROM THE NATIONS The Goal John Piper draws some important insights from Romans 15 along these lines. Paul writes there: For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness,
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 10 (October 2018) ETERNAL PRAISE AND HUMAN HISTORY(Revelation 4 & 5) (part 3) REDEEMER In Revelation 4, we saw Eternal Praise offered up to God as Creator. In Revelation 5, He is given Eternal Praise because He is also the Redeemer. Then I saw in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 8 (August 2018) ETERNAL PRAISE AND HUMAN HISTORY(Revelation 4 & 5) (part 1) In Revelation chapter 4 John gets a look into the very throne room of God in heaven, where we see Eternal Praise going on: After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven!… At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 5 (May 2018) THE GOD OF OUR ETERNAL PRAISE(Revelation 1) In a sermon given by Sinclair Ferguson, the great Scottish theologian and preacher, he said: A friend of mine led a tour last year to the seven churches of the book of Revelation. I said, “Did you go to the island of Patmos?” “No,” he said, “I asked the people about going to Patmos, and they
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 12, No. 5 (May 2017) Thursday, May 25 is Ascension Day ( and Sunday, May 28, therefore celebrated as Ascension Sunday), commemorating the physical ascent of the risen Christ to the Father’s right hand in heaven, 40 days after Easter. The cosmic significance of the Ascension is often overlooked, after the joyous celebration of the Resurrection dissipates in the weeks following Easter. But the Heidelberg Cathechism (Question 49) highlights some of its consequences
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 10, No. 6 (June 2015) The following powerful summary and celebration of the message of the Book of Revelation was presented in word and song at special Palm Sunday services on Sunday, March 29, 2015, with readers, congregation, choir and orchestra at First Evangelical Church in Memphis, Tennessee. A video recording of the service can be accessed HERE. And the service program can be found HERE. HEAR
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 8 (August 2014) 19. SCENES OF WORSHIP IN REVELATION (Part 1) In A.D. 987, Vladimir, Prince of Kiev . . . sent embassies to the neighboring states of Bulgaria, Khazar, and Byzantium to examine their beliefs. The ambassadors return, declaring that the Islam of Bulgaria is too unhappy a religion to adopt. . . . Vladimir himself rejects the Judaism of his Khazar neighbors, for he
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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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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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