ASCENDED ON HIGH: The Significance of Jesus’ Ascension

Ascension, Christ and Worship, Church, New Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 5  (May 2014)   A REDIRECT Seeing how yesterday (Thursday) was Ascension Day (40 days after Easter; a public holiday in much of Europe), and this Sunday many churches will thus mark Ascension Sunday, it seemed appropriate to interrupt our series on Important New Testament Passages in order to briefly focus on this oft-neglected yet incredibly significant event in the ministry of Jesus and the life of the Church. […]

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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 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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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 1)

Heart Worship, Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Priority of Worship, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 5 (May 2013) 1. GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF WORSHIP IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW a.   Exclusive worship Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For

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