Tag: regulative principle

  • Best Worship “Seminar” Ever

    Best Worship “Seminar” Ever

    No session about guitar solos, riffs and fills. No tips on drumming independence, syncopation, grooves,and rhythms. No instruction on how to incorporate soul, R&B, and hip-hop styles in worship.

  • The Second Commandment: Fire from the LORD!

    The Second Commandment: Fire from the LORD!

    We see this pattern of worship throughout the Old Testament: the people offer their sacrifices for sin, God sends fire from heaven, and the people worship with joy and reverence.

  • “What is a Reformed Church?”

    “What is a Reformed Church?”

    A Reformed church is Christian, Protestant, Confessional, not Catholic, “dead, traditional, or ritualistic.”

  • Welcome to a REFORMED CHURCH Study Guide

    Welcome to a REFORMED CHURCH Study Guide

    Why is your church called “Reformed”? Why is your worship so serious and so different? No Praise & Worship—just strange-sounding old songs? Why do you recite the Apostles’ Creed, and use catechisms and Latin words—are you Catholic? If you’re really curious, you ‘re all welcome to visit and ask questions. Better yet, you can join…

  • Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    Reformed Worship Introduction: “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church—Today!”

    For a printer-friendly PDF copy, click here. Reformed Worship Series: Introduction • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 In 1543, the great French and Genevan Reformer John Calvin wrote a treatise addressed to Emperor Charles V entitled, “On the Necessity of Reforming the Church,” wherein he discusses the two things…

  • Why is Our Worship so Serious?

    Why is Our Worship so Serious?

    Download this article in booklet form [wpdm_package id=’12607′]  © 2004, 2008 by Daniel R. Hyde. Originally published as “Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?” in The Journal of the Church Music National Conference (Winter 2004): 3–6. Here in San Diego county we have a weekly magazine called The San Diego Reader. It is a magazine…

  • God-Centered Worship in the Wilderness

    God-Centered Worship in the Wilderness

    Numbers 3:1-51; Scripture Readings: Numbers 3:1-51; 1 Cor 12:27-31 March 2, 2009 • Download this sermon (PDF) Introduction Have you ever been to a youth camp or an adult retreat where emotions ran high, so the leader and the campers decided to have a spontaneous Lord’s Supper? Or maybe there were so-called decisions for Christ, so the youth…