Tag: worship
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Continual Praise – How?
This is the fifth of six blog posts looking at the first 3 verses of Psalm 34, and attempting to understand the idea of “continual praise”. Series: Who? | What? | Whom? | When? | How? | Why? I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;The humble shall hear of…
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Continual Praise – When?
This is the fourth of six blog posts looking at the first 3 verses of Psalm 34, and attempting to understand the idea of “continual praise”. Series: Who? | What? | Whom? | When? | How? | Why? I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;The humble shall hear of…
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Family Worship: a how-to guide
We are in the midst of the Covid-19 stay-at-home order. The world is experiencing this event together. Churches have been unable to safely gather for worship for several weeks now. So what are we to do? How do we worship effectively when we can’t gather with other saints? We do what the people of God…
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Weekend Reads 4/25
Here are a few links we found interesting or worthwhile this week, and we pass them on to you for reading over the weekend. I Love My Black Letter Bible – “The miracle of inspiration means the whole Bible is the voice of God. While central and foundational, the fourfold Gospel witness is no more true…
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Flattery will get you nowhere
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. (Psalm 66:18) If you’re like me, you want to know that God hears your prayers. If I don’t have confidence that God hears and cares about my prayers, then what’s the point in praying? So I’m always on the look out…
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Rejoicing In Who God Is
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. (Psalm 58:10) This is not a popular sentiment. It strikes us as wrong somehow. Yet here it is, in scripture. The context of the entire psalm makes clear this is God’s vengeance against the wicked.…
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the greatest job on earth
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Psalm 95: 6-7 It is a beautiful thing to worship and bow before our Maker, the God of the universe.…
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a sacrifice of praise
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. (Hebrews 13:15) One of the main themes of the book of Hebrews has been that Jesus ended the sacrificial system by fulfilling the law and offering himself as a perfect sacrifice. It…