Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so. This side of the Fall, human worship of God properly responds to the redemptive provisions that God has graciously made. While all true worship is God-centered, Christian worship is no less Christ-centered. Empowered by the Spirit and in line with the stipulations of the new covenant, it manifests itself in all our living, finding its impulse in the gospel, which restores our relationship with our Redeemer-God and therefore also with our fellow image-bearers, our co-worshippers. Such worship therefore manifests itself both in adoration and action, both in the individual believer and in corporate worship, which is worship offered up in the context of the body of believers, who strive to align all the forms of the devout ascription of all worth to God with the panoply of new covenant mandates and examples that bring to fulfillment the glories of antecedent revelation and anticipate the consummation.
D. A. Carson Worship by the Book (pg. 26)
The great multitude in Revelation which no man can number aren’t playing cricket. They aren’t going shopping. They are worshipping. Sounds boring? If so, it shows how impoverished our idea of worship has become. At the centre of that worship stands a passage like Isaiah 33: your eyes will see the king in his beauty; the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler, the LORD is our king; he will save us. Worship is the central characteristic of the heavenly life; and that worship is focues on the God we know in and as Jesus.
N. T. Wright For All God’s Worth (pg. 7)
This is, indeed the proper business of the whole life, in which men should daily exercise themselves, to consider
the infinite goodness, justice, power and wisdom of God, in this magnificent theatre of God.
John Calvin
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Notes |
Beyond Style Wars: Recovering the Substance of Worship  |
Michael Horton |
Is the Church a House of Worship?  |
D.A. Carson - Q&A on Worship |
Worship On Earth As It Is In Heaven - 1 (MP3)  |
Dr. Art Azurdia |
Worship On Earth As It Is In Heaven - 2 (MP3)  |
Dr. Art Azurdia |
Helps for Worship (eBook)  |
William Shishko |
10 Ways to Improve your Church's Worship Service (.pdf)  |
Donald S. Whitney |
10 More Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service (.pdf)  |
Donald S. Whitney |
A Third 10 Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service (.pdf)  |
Donald S. Whitney |
Pleasing God in Our Worship  |
Robert Godfrey |
Corporate Confession of Sin  |
collection of various authors |
The Necessity of Reforming the Church  |
John Calvin |
Some Reflections on New Testament Hymns  |
Ralph P. Martin (pdf) |
Setting the Stage  |
Mike Horton - "Imagine the worship service as a magnificent theater of divine action..." |
Worship (Audio Series)  |
R.C. Sproul |
Remembering: A Central Theme in Biblical Worship (.pdf)  |
Eugene H. Merrill - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2000) |
Trends in Common Worship  |
David Phillips (pdf) |
Rediscovering Mother Kirk  |
D.G. Hart - Is High-Church Presbyterianism an Oxymoron? |
The Lord's Day  |
Archibald Alexander |
Christian Worship  |
Mark Dalbey - A study of worship as central to the life of all believers. Professor Barrs explains the nature of true worship, various aspects of both private and public worship, and the forms that worship should take within the context of the church. |
What's a Worship Leader to Do?  |
Bob Kauflin 14-Part Essay |
Biblical Worship  |
Kevin Reed |
On the Use of Arts in Worship  |
Nathan Pitchford |
Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?  |
Robert Godfrey |
An Introduction to Reformed Worship (.pdf)  |
Gregory Rickmar |
Authentic Worship (.pdf)  |
Harold Best |
The End of the Gospel - Worship  |
John Cheesman |
A Brief Guide to Presbyterian Worship  |
Andrew James Webb |
John Calvin's Views on Worship  |
Dr Robert Godfrey |
On Christian Worship  |
Zacharius Ursinus |
Christ Himself in the Assemblies of His People  |
John Murray |
For Whom Is Worship?  |
Peter Leithart |
Worship Is More Than a List  |
Jack D. Kinneer |
The Beauty of Reformed Worship  |
G. VanDooren |
Martin Luther and Psalm Singing  |
David Steele |
Introduction to Worship  |
Terry Johnson |
Form or Heart?  |
J.C. Ryle (.doc) |
Is They Heart Right?  |
J.C. Ryle (.doc) |
The Directory for the Publick Worship of God  |
Westminster Confession Subordinate Standards |
Whatever Happened to God?  |
Donald G. Bloesch |
Principles of Reformed Worship  |
Escondido United Reformed Church |
Worship Wars  |
Maureen Bradley |
A Reformed Theology of Worship  |
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (.pdf) |
The Strassburg Liturgy (1545)  |
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Liturgy of the Reformed Church  |
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A Short Explanation on Why We Use a "Liturgy?"  |
Rev. Danny Hyde |
The Beauty of Reformed Litergy  |
Rev. G. VanDooren |
Evangelistic Worship  |
Tim Keller (pdf) |
Q&A about Postmodern Worship Contemporary Music & Ancient Liturgy  |
Greg Johnson |
Celtic Worship?  |
Geoff Thomas - Postmodern believers want to use all of their senses, stressed Hall. They want smells and bells. They want to see icons and statues, as well as drama and digital clips from movies. They look for God in nature, as well as scripture. |
Worship  |
John A. Broadus - God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). |
Acceptable Worship (MP3 10-Part Series)  |
Rev. John Greer |
Back to the Basics of Reformed Worship  |
Jon Payne |
Multi-Cultural Worship  |
Matthew Kingswood |
What is Reformed Worship: It is Biblical?  |
Daniel Hyde |
Worshipping in Spirit and Truth  |
Jake Stutzman |
Praise the Lord: Song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization  |
Mark Noll |
Paradigms of Praise  |
Carl Schalk |
Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?  |
Daniel R. Hyde |
The Object of the Christian's Desire in Worship  |
John Witherspoon |
The Worship of God in the Four Gospels  |
John Murray |
Pictures of Christ  |
John Murray |
An Evangelical and Reformed Faith  |
Terry Johnson |
Pluralistic Worship  |
Terry Johnson |
Corporate Worship  |
Mark Dever |
Biblical, Historical, and Theological Case for Reformed Worship (MP3)  |
Terry Johnson |
Christ in the Psalms  |
E. S. McKitrick |
The Puritan Principle of Worship  |
William Young |
Come to Mount Zion: The Glory and Genius of New Testament Worship  |
Bill Baldwin, 1-9-98 |
God Glorified in Our Worship  |
Ken Myers |
Top Ten Ways to Write Bad Worship Songs  |
Bob Kauflin |
The Place of Music and Singing in Church  |
Vaughan Roberts |
Musical Idolatry: Non Nobi (MP3)  |
Charles D. King, Reformation & Revival 7.3 (Summer 1998): 121-143. |
Worship of Christ and the Biblical Covenant (.pdf)  |
Richard C. Leonard, Reformation & Revival 2:2 (Spring 1993): 101-120. |
Discerning The Spirits: Making Wise Choices In An Era Of Liturgical Change  |
John D. Witoliet, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 15-28 |
Jesus Our Worship Leader: The Mediating Work Of The Son In Worship (.pdf)  |
Ron Man, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 31-43. |
Worship And The Glory Of God (.pdf)  |
Ron Man, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 79-99. |
Worship In The Psalms, Exodus 15 And The Praise Of God, Part One (.pdf)  |
Ronald B. Allen, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 103-113. |
Worship In The Psalms Exodus 15 And The Praise of God, Part Two (.pdf)  |
Ronald B. Allen, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 109-118. |
The Epistle To The Hebrews And Worship (.pdf)  |
Tom Wells, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 115-129. |
The Book Of Revelation And The Subject Of Worship (.pdf)  |
Tom Wells, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 93-106 |
Is Our Worship Adequately Triune? (.pdf)  |
Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 121-129 |
Aesthetics And The Place Of Beauty In Worship (.pdf)  |
John Mason Hodges, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 59-74. |
Children And Congregational Worship: When, Why, And How? (.pdf)  |
David W. Hegg, Reformation & Revival 10.1 (Winter 2001): 105-122. |
Handel’s Messiah: Biblical and Theological Perspectives (.pdf)  |
Daniel I. Block |
The Nature and Beauty of Gospel Worship  |
John Owen |
Images  |
Martin Bucer |
Surveying the Crisis of Worship  |
R.C. Sproul |
The Whole Earth is Full of His Glory: The Recovery of Authentic Worship (.pdf)  |
Al Mohler |
On Liturgical Gnats and Theological Camels  |
William B. Evans |
Children Worshiping God  |
Simonetta Carr |
The Truth and the Lie in Worship (vimeo)  |
Peter Jones |
Life and Worship Matters  |
Burk Parsons |
When to Stop, When to Go, When to Slow Down  |
R. C. Sproul |
Reforming Worship  |
D. G. Hart |
The real crisis of Reformed worship: forgetting which testament we’re under  |
Matthew Tuininga |
Three Principles for Reformed (and Reforming) Worship  |
Evan McWilliams |
The Book of Common Prayer  |
Episcopal |
Liturgy of the Netherlands Reformed Churches  |
baptism; confessions of faith and guilt; Lord's Supper; excommunication, and readmittance; ordination of ministers, elders, and missionaries; installation of professors of theology; confirmation of marriage  |
The German Mass and Order of Divine Service, January 1526  |
Martin Luther  |
Introduction to the Worship of God  |
John Owen  |
What is Reformed Worship? It is Biblical  |
Daniel Hyde |
A Big Tent  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
A Day Belonging To Jesus  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
A Discussion of the Necessity of Reforming the Church by John Calvin  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
A Study of Worship  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
Are Churches Secularizing America?  |
Michael S. Horton |
Tragic Worship  |
Carl R. Trueman  |