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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 […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief? (Part Two)
Part One The House of God “House of God” When Israel came to their temple to worship, they recognized that it was where God dwelt. The Old Testament (OT) already established it as the “house of God.” In the OT, the “house of God” (Beth Elohim or Beth YHWH) is not mainly a building or […]
Is a Gathering of the Church, “a Worship Service,” a Biblical Belief?
When a pastor or church calls its meeting on Sunday morning or evening, “a worship service,” is that a biblical belief or practice? For years, I’ve called the assembling of our church “AM Worship” and “PM Worship.” Is that just a tradition? Is it the scriptural way to look at it? Recently, an online commentator […]
The Unscriptural Decline of Singing the Psalms in Churches
As I grew up in an independent Baptist church, not only did we not sing the psalms; I never heard of doing it. It never even occurred to me that a church should sing the psalms. I hate to report this. During my Bible college and seminary years, no one mentioned psalm singing. It was […]
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, […]
God and His Gospel Preaching to Cain, Who Rejects It
Genesis 4 chronicles the beginnings for the first family after the fall of man into sin. The first couple of verses portray positives for the parents and their children. 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she […]
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 […]
AI Friday: On Worship
I asked a different Artificial Intelligence program, Microsoft Copilot, which is a feature of Bing, about what I think about worship. It gave a shorter explanation than what AI Questions has. What I like about it is that it summarizes what I’ve written. It also reports a type of objective assessment of everything I’ve written […]
On the Lord’s Day, Turn Apps & Email Off On Your Cell Phone
On the Lord’s Day, consider turning off apps, email, and whatever else you can on your cell phone. The first day of the week, Sunday, is not the Sabbath, but there are principles from Israel’s Sabbath that are appropriately applied to the first day of the week, the day of Christian worship, the Lord’s Day […]
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