Category: Articles on Worship
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“Be Thou My Vision” or Pantheism Rock
My friend Andy Underhile compares “contemporary Christian music” with the 8th century hymn, “Be Thou My Vision,” written by Dallán Forgaill (530-598). Here’s hymnary.org’s write-up on Forgaill: Saint Dallán Forgaill (ca. 530–598), also known as Dallán Forchella, Dallán of Cluain Dalláin, and born Eochaid Forchella, was an early Christian Irish poet, best known as the writer…
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Sacrament and Other Things “Catholic”
A Glossary of Terms Used in Reformed Churches Frequently Thought to be Roman Catholic To download a printer-friendly PDF version of this post, click here. People from mainstream evangelical churches who visit Reformed churches usually come away with the feeling that they had been to a Roman Catholic Mass or something similar. For example, when…
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Ten Reasons Why We Don’t Have Testimonies in Worship
Testimonies are popular because preaching Christ and the gospel has become not just unnecessary, but “boring” to many evangelicals.
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7 Reasons Why We Don’t Have Altar Calls in Our Church
Most evangelicals would be surprised to learn that there never was such a thing as altar calls from the time of the apostles until the 1820s.
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A Puritan Prayer on the Lord’s Day
Give me in rich abundance the blessings the Lord’s Day was designed to impart; May my heart be fast bound against worldly thoughts or cares; Flood my mind with peace beyond understanding.
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Four Views of the Lord’s Supper
The Holy Spirit uses the communion service to increase our faith, to strengthen our faith, to confirm our faith. Thus through the communion service, we can have communion with the total person of Christ, including His body which was broken and His blood which was shed for our salvation.
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Holidays and Holy Days
In the first three centuries of Christianity and during the Reformation, believers met for worship to the peril of life and limb. The Puritans of the 17th century walked on the Lord’s Days to their churches through creeks and crags, meadows and mountains, searing heat and freezing cold.
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Why Does Your Pastor Monopolize Your Worship Service?
“A shoemaker, a smith, a farmer, each has his manual occupation and work; and yet, at the same time, all are eligible to act as priests…. Every one of them in his occupation or handicraft ought to be useful to his fellows… ” ~ Martin Luther
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Articles on Worship
Joel R. Beeke: “Psalm Singing in Calvin and the Puritans” R. Scott Clark: “The Strasbourg Liturgy of 1545” Michael Brown: What is the Benediction? Michael Brown: Why the Pastor Wears a Robe? Michael Brown: Tithing and Giving Michael Brown: Why Pray the Lord’s Prayer? W. Robert Godfrey: “Calvin and the Worship of God” W. Robert…