Tag: Christian Worship
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9 Reasons People Are Not Singing in Worship
Charles Spurgeon once quipped: “God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.” While Spurgeon is right, the problem is that in many congregations the people are not “praising God with the voice”. If the folks at Renewing Worship are to be believed, part of the reason is…
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10 Principles for Worship
The highest calling and greatest privilege of all Christians is to love and worship God. In worship we encounter God with increasing awareness of who he is. In worship we together magnify God’s glory. The following are 10 principles, developed over a number of years, and influenced by a variety of sources, that not only express my philosophy of worship,…
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Why Do We Come For Worship?
The answer to the question, “Why do we come for worship?” determines everything about the service. And it can only be answered one of two ways: We are in worship for God or we are there for man. If we come to worship for man, we become principally concerned with such questions as: Are we…
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Steak on a Paper Plate
I am not sure I agree with everything he says, but Trevin Wax offers some very insightful thoughts worth considering about contemporary worship wars: More and more churches are focusing on the centrality of the Word in worship. The resurgence of Reformed theology among younger evangelicals, the reestablishment of a rock-solid belief in the inerrancy…
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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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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…
