Category: Worship
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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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The Strasbourg Liturgy Of 1545 (Part 1)
The Reformed liturgy that we use in Pasig and Imus are adapted from this and other Reformation liturgies.
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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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Liturgy for April 29, 2012
“From Where Does My Help Come?” Psalm 121:1-8 (text); NT reading: Romans 8:31-39
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Liturgy for April 15, 2012
Sermon: Once Dead, Now Alive. Text: Ephesians 2:1-10. Old Testament Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14.
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Liturgy for Good Friday Tenebrae Service, April 6, 2012
Come join us, as we solemnly celebrate the Son of God’s becoming a man in order to die for the sins of the world. We will read and hear the Passion Narratives, sing inspired songs, and lift our hearts with ancient prayers.
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Our Church Shrinkage Seminar Part 1
So if you want to be uplifted, affirmed and loved, “come as you are” to a megachurch. They’ll shower you with God’s “unconditional love” from the get-go with love songs to Jesus and with a “God is good all the time” mantra.
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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