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Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Romans 12:1 plainly teaches that the believer’s whole life is worship: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. The living sacrifice is perpetual worship. […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three Congregational Singing as Worship: Its Primary Purpose Is God Rather Than Man The New Testament (NT) church does not abandon Old Testament (OT) worship but fulfills it. Christ did fulfill the priesthood, the sacrifices, the tabernacle, and the covenant, yet He did not abolish worship itself. Rather, […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Three)
Part One Part Two How should singing and playing in the church be understood? Does sacred music somehow become less worship under the New Covenant than it was under the Old? Has God transformed what was once a priestly offering into a merely educational exercise? Has congregational praise lost its sacrificial character simply because […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Scripture shows worldliness as a gospel issue. When someone repents, he leaves the world system for a heavenly one. When salvation presents itself to someone, a worldly heart, which cares more about the accoutrements of this present world than the realities of the next one, the one of God, the […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue
What Is “The World”? Biblical Christianity, the only Christianity, is in complete incongruity with the “world,” what scripture shows is the world system or the spirit of the age. BDAG, the foremost lexicon of the New Testament, defines the Greek word translated “world,” kosmos, based upon its usage in all ancient Greek literature: “the sum […]
Predominant Criteria for Worship That Distort and Corrupt Worship of God
Just to keep track of what’s going on here, I’ve got several series still ongoing. I wanted to remind you and perhaps assure you, that Lord-willing I will, definitely want to, finish these. Monday, I published the fourth in a series entitled, The Spectrum on Israel Accepted in the MAGA Movement (parts one, two, three, […]
Steps in the Right Process for Belief Change (Part Six)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Cultural Issues and the Transcendence of God Major, widespread changes in professing Christianity occurred in what people term, “cultural issues.” For the purposes of this article, I refer “cultural issues” to standards of dress, music, entertainment, art, language, and aesthetics. Biblically […]
Music Style Isn’t a Christian Liberty (part four)
Part One Part Two Part Three This series, now in part four, mixes two true aspects of the perpetual worship of a believer that reinforces the proposition that musical style is not a Christian liberty. The first is the individual worship that takes up the entire life of a believer. He does all […]
Profaning the Name of the Lord: How Can or Do People Do It? (Part Two)
Part One Moses meets the LORD in Exodus 3:1-6 and I’m stopping in verse 6: 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the […]
Perverting Beauty Perverting Truth and Perverting Truth Perverting Beauty
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four God and Beauty God is one. All truth, goodness, and beauty proceed from God. Since God is one, His truth, goodness, and beauty are one. You can’t take away from one of these three without taking away from the other two. Each of those […]
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