Category: Worship
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Making the Most of Worship
Worship is the most important activity that a believer participates in during any given week. My purpose is not so much to make that case in this post as it is to offer some suggestions about how we might get the most out of the worship experience. In short, like anything else worth doing, it…
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Tips That Change the Taste of Worship
As a pastor I have come to understand that some people have difficulty concentrating throughout the Sunday message. Sometimes it’s just me people can’t follow. But sometimes it is them. It may be a short attentioon span, external distractions, or just the overwhelming wealth of insight being offered. (That last one is my favorite.) If you’ve ever…
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Wheting Our Apetite for Worship
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God – it whets our appetite… Our need for God is not taken care of by engaging in worship – it deepens… It overfloows the hour and permeates the week… – Eugene Petereson
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The Supremacy of God in Missions Through Worship
by John Piper Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no…
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Some Thoughts of Worship
Worship is an oft-misunderstood term. Many Christians think of worship as entertainment which is meant to please them. But worship is meant to focus on God, not on us. If we examine closely the practice of worship in the Old & New Testaments we find that worship is first of all an offering of…
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Community in Worship
In our society, we are conditioned to think primarily in terms of the individual. This also seems to be true in the church – sadly, perhaps especially so. Noted worship scholar, Robert Webber, said that so much stress has been laid on individual conversion that worship services, in many churches, are often not worship-centered. He said that in conversion-centered…
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What is Worship?
This post is an interview with Joseph F. “Skip” Ryan, former pastor of Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas, and Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. This interview first appeared in RTS Ministry in Summer 1990; and later in Reformed Worship. Q In your opinion, what constitutes worship? A Most importantly, I think that the…
