WORSHIP NOTES Volume 18, No. 9 (September 2023) Order now at 40% discount using coupon code CONF40at https://wipfandstock.com/9781666762778/let-us-draw-near/ (code good through December 31) Drawing upon his experience in teaching this material over the past twenty-five years in forty countries, Ron Man provides a rich and deep examination of biblical worship, drawing principles out of a rigorous study of the text of Scripture. He also writes as a practitioner, from the …
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 …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 5 (June 2021) John 4 is one of the most important passages on worship in the New Testament. Because it’s here in John 4 where Jesus Himself teaches on worship. Zane Hodges wrote: [The Samaritan woman] raised the subject of worship, and the Saviour’s reply was as pregnant a statement on this issue as had ever escaped the lips of man. Indeed, once He had …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 1 (January 2021) The Scottish theologians James B. Torrance (1923-2003) and Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007) and were born in China to British missionaries working with the American Bible Society. They were not just great thinkers, but great churchmen with real hearts for evangelism. In their writings they provided rich and profound insights on Christian worship. My first introduction to this thinking was through James Torrance’s …
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; …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 11 (November 2018) And Jacob dreamed, and behold, there was a LADDER set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 5 (May 2016) She was a small, unassuming woman, librarian of the Presbyterian seminary sponsoring the conference I was speaking at in Nigeria. At the end of one of the sessions, the moderator asked this woman to close the time in prayer. I will never forget how she started her prayer: she said, “In Jesus Name,” and then went on with her prayer to the Father. I …
