Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 14)

Creation, Glory of God, Heaven, Holiness, Lamb, Praise, Revelation

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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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 13)

Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Praise, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 7  (July 2014) 18. WORSHIP IN THE GENERAL EPISTLES a. 1 Peter 2:5    Spiritual Sacrifices You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. The Church arose within the context of 1st-century Judaism; but as the book of Acts relates, the rejection of the gospel by most

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 11)

Christ and Worship, False Worship/Idolatry, Gospel, Praise, Revelation and Response, Salvation, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 4  (April 2014) 14. Turning from False to True Worship (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10) Too often we talk about the gospel only in negative terms: that is, how it saves us (and gloriously so!) from sin, death and hell. But it is important to realize and to emphasize that we are not just saved from something, but also to something: to a personal relationship with our

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 10)

Christ and Worship, Church, Glory of God, Holy Spirit, Music, Praise, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 3  (March 2014) 9. TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY (Ephesians 1:3-14) After his opening greeting, Paul launches into his epistle by praising God (“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”) because He “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing” (3). He then enumerates a number of these blessings which makes Him worthy of praise, namely: Election 4Love 4Adoption 5Grace 6,

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 4)

Biblical vs. Cultural, Communion, Global Worship, Praise, Prayer, Transcultural Aspects of Worship, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 8 (August 2013) NOTE: For the crucial passage on worship in John 4, please see Worship Notes 3.9. 4. BIBLICAL CONSTANTS OF WORSHIP (Acts 2:42,47) a. Normative Elements Luke has just recounted the events of the day of Pentecost: the coming of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus’ followers, Peter’s sermon, and the conversion and baptism of “three thousand souls” (2:41). And in the very next

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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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The Supremacy of God’s Name in the Old Testament

Faith, Glory of God, Name(s) of God, Old Testament, Praise, Prayer

Worship in the Old Testament, 18th and last in the series WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 4 (April 2013) You have exalted above all thingsYour name and Your word. (Psalm 138:2)  “I am the LORD; that is My name;I will not give my glory to another.” (Isaiah 42:8) 1. THE NATURE OF GOD’S NAME As is well known, names in Scripture carry much more weight than mere appellation or identification: they

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Important Old Testament Worship Passages (Part 4)

Glory of God, Heaven, Holiness, Old Testament, Praise, Revelation and Response

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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Important Old Testament Worship Passages (Part 3)

Old Testament, Praise, Priority of Worship, Psalms

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 16th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 2 (February 2013) 12. Job 1:20-12 Worship in the face of profound suffering Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be

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The Psalms: Israel’s Worship Book

David, Israel, Music, Old Testament, Praise, Psalms, Tabernacle/Temple

THEME: Worship in the Old Testament, 13th in the series  WORSHIP NOTES Volume 7, No. 10 (October 2012) 1. Their Unique Contribution It is reported that Athanasius, an outstanding Christian leader of the fourth century, declared that the Psalms have a unique place in the Bible because most of Scripture speaks to us, while the Psalms speak for us  (Bernhard W. Anderson, Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak for Us

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