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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 17, No. 7 (July 2022) The May 2022 issue of Worship Notes, entitled “Two-Sided Worship,” concluded with these words: So BOTH the corporate gathering for worship and the daily walk of worship (including the focused private times of devotion and worship) are very, very important. Which brings us to an interesting ongoing debate: Does our corporate worship gathering for worship, our “weekend worship,” prepare us for

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Interceding for Us

Hebrews, High Priest

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 12 (December 2020) The Letter to the Hebrews is the great worship book of the New Testament. There we learn more about the depths of New Covenant worship than anywhere else. In its portrayal of the superiority of Christ and of the New Covenant, Hebrews of course has a lot to say about the past, completed work of Christ for our salvation: specifically, in 1:3;

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Jesus: Alive and Active

Ascension, Christ and Worship, Hebrews, High Priest, New Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 4 (April 2018) We are approaching the celebration of Jesus’ Ascension (Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:51) (40 days after Easter, this year May 10; churches will observe Ascension Sunday on May 13, followed by Pentecost Sunday on May 20). For more on the significance of the Ascension and how (and why) we should celebrate it in worship, see Worship Notes 2.5 and 9.5. This is an

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The Importance of Worship for Theology

Christ and Worship, Hebrews, Reformation, Revelation and Response, Theology and Doxology, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 9 (September 2016) Last month we looked at the importance of theology for worship (that is, a biblical understanding of worship). This month we want to look at it the other way around and consider the importance of worship for theology. In any of our biblical study as believers, whether it be in Bible school, in seminary, in Sunday School, or in our own private study, it

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 12)

Christ and Worship, Hebrews, Incarnation, New Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 6 (June 2014) 18. WORSHIP IN THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS Hebrews is a whole world of its own when it comes to New Testament teachings about worship. Here are some testimonies to its greatness and uniqueness: Hebrews presents the most complete and fully integrated theology of worship in the New Testament. All the important categories of Old Testament thinking on this subject—sanctuary, sacrifice, altar, priesthood and covenant—are

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