“The holiest thing in the world is the Church”

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 21, No. 7 (July 2026) Here is the church; here is the steeple; open the door, and see all the people. I once heard a German pastor make the surprising statement in the title above. But in fact, in spite of all its imperfections and divisions, the Church is indeed unspeakably precious to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We need to be reminded of that. LOVED BY […]

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Rejoice . . . with Trembling

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 21, No. 6 (June 2026) One of the most precious New Testament truths, one which the writer of Hebrews develops at some length, is the fact that in Jesus Christ a holy, transcendent God has come close. Theologians speak of his immanence, or nearness, as contrasted with His transcendence. (Of course, both are perfectly true of God without contradiction.) When Martin Luther translated the Bible into German

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AN ASCENSION CONCORDANCE

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 21, No. 4 (April 2026) “The dust of the earth is on the throne of theMajesty on high.” (John Duncan) Complementing the Incarnation in which the eternal God himself condescends to be one with us in our hurt and creaturely disintegration in order to redeem us from all evil and re-create us from within the ontological depths of our existence, and complementing the Passion and Resurrection of

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