Tag: reformed
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Psalms for 5th Anniversary Service
Just preparing the order of worship for our 5th Anniversary Service gets me excited and energized. Here are the four psalms I chose for singing.
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18 Tips for Public Reading of Scripture
The public reading and preaching of Scripture is a means of grace, because it is through the preaching of the gospel that the Spirit regenerates the hearts of people, enabling them to willingly repent and believe in Christ. As such, we are to honor this means of God’s grace through diligent preparation and proclamation.
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The Burnt Offering
Burnt offerings therefore signify that whenever believers gather as God’s people during worship services, they ascend into the heavenly places by the Spirit through faith in Christ. Our offerings of prayers, songs and doxologies, and our vows of consecration to God ascend into heaven as a pleasing aroma to God.
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The Sin Offering
As the sacrificial animal was burned outside the camp, so Christ also suffered and died outside the city, “So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.â€
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Words of Wisdom in an Uncertain World
“Casting†involves trust and adventure, because there is always a risk factor. And there is a promise of reward, because “you will find†your bread again, if you are patient enough to wait for “many days.”
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God-Driven Life of Pleasures
We can only eat bread with joy, drink wine with a merry heart, enjoy the love of our families, and find joy in our labors when we know that all of these earthly pleasures do not come to an end at death.
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Whither, UNIDA Evangelical Church?
The apostle John calls us to be discerning and to “test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world†(1 John 4:1) … We must test the spirits by examining a doctrinal confession (1 John 4:1–3; 1 Tim 4).
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Why Do We Have Bibles, Hymnals, Printed Liturgies and Other Obsolete Stuff?
Christian worship is increasingly ephemeral, where there are no hymnals, no printed liturgies, no pew Bibles, no permanent pulpits; but only transitory PowerPoint slides, overhead projections, and portable podiums. In Scripture, this age is passing away; in our culture, even material objects like books are passing away. So much in contemporary church life is fleeting…
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Resources for Liturgical Worship (1): Prayers Part 3
Teach us, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and we will keep it to the end. Give us understanding, that we may keep your law and observe it with our whole heart. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
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Resources for Liturgical Worship (1): Prayers Part 2
We look to no other King and seek no other Advocate for the help that we need in this world and in the world to come. You call us to seek not only our own salvation and good, but that of your whole church and the world, and we do so now.