WORSHIP NOTES Volume 20, No. 3 ( March 2025) An Astounding Truth Jesus Christ, Paul tells us in Colossians 3:11, “is all, and in all.” And that extends to our worship. Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have […]
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 19, No. 9 (September 2024) The members of the Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—are all equally God and equally glorious. Yet, remarkably, the different members of the Trinity voluntarily perform different roles: The Father sends the Son (a major theme in the Gospel of John: 4:34; 5:24, 36–38; 6:29; 7:16; etc.); the Son obeys the Father (John 4:34); and the Spirit, as we see here, glorifies Christ
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 19, No. 3 (March 2024) In the midst of the congregation I [Jesus] will sing Your [the Father’s] praise. (Hebrews 2:12b) Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set
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Last month we began to consider several authors’ fascinating insights into Jesus’ familiarity with, usage of, and fulfillment of the Psalms. Here are some more. WORSHIP NOTES Volume 19, No. 2 (February 2024) The Psalms are the prayers Jesus holds in common with us as He, in His manhood, takes His place within the covenant people of God. And they are Christ’s distinctive prayer book as he takes up His
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 19, No. 1 (January 2024) Then He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” (Luke 24:44) This month and next we consider several authors’ fascinating insights into Jesus’ familiarity with, usage of, and fulfillment of the Psalms.
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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
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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
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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
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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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