WORSHIP NOTES Volume 21, No. 2 (February 2026) THE OLD WAY The tabernacle (and later the temple) was the physical and spiritual center of the nation and its worship life. The tabernacle was to stand in the centre of the camp and provide the means by which all of life was to be related to God. . . .In concrete form it expressed the truth that human beings could not […]
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WORSHIP NOTESVolume 20, No. 11 (November 2025) Here is the second of the three keynote Bible lessons I gave at the conference. CELEBRATION Sing to the LORD, all the earth!Tell of his salvation from day to day. Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples,ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;bring an offering and come before him!Worship the LORD in the
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 7 ( July 2025) Silence and Freedom It is an amazing fact that the New Testament is virtually silent on the matter of form for the church’s worship. D. A. Carson writes: “There is no single passage in the New Testament that establishes a paradigm for corporate worship.” (“Worship under the Word,” in Worship by the Book, 40) (Of course, this is in marked contrast
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 16, No. 8 (September 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. Last
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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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