"Worship is often shaped more by what people desire than by the nature of God’s self-disclosure found in the Bible."
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I found this succinct statement of how one church is addressing the matter of corporate worship to be very helpful.
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Can We Rock the Gospel?
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Tim Challies reviews the new book by Dan Lucarini and John Blanchard
Additional Link: Publisher’s web page (with sample chapter)
Additional Link: Publisher’s web page (with sample chapter)
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"'The worship was good today' – do you mean you were tickled or do you mean you were inconvenienced by loving another?"
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Paul Martin covers Mark Dever’s session “Worship in the New Testament” at Toronto Baptist Seminary’s International Baptist Conference
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"I love participating in worship that exults in God’s greatness."
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Andy Naselli describes his visit to Wheaton’s College Church
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"(W)e are not meaning to be catering for nominal Christians."
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Immoderate has some interesting quotes from Mark Dever in “Dever on RUF tunes, and ‘light’ and casual worship”
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Of Sunday Schools and Dodo Birds
To ask, “What is the biblical philosophy of Sunday school?” is a loaded question: the question is loaded with the assumption that the Sunday school should be there, and it is loaded with all our circumstantial preconceptions of the Sunday schools we’ve grown up attending. There is no “biblical philosophy” of Sunday school per se; no concordance search will locate the “Sunday school chapter” of the Bible, telling us how, or even that, God wants Sunday school conducted.
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