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 |
Worship On Earth As It Is In Heaven - 2 (MP3)  |
Dr. Art Azurdia |
Worship On Earth As It Is In Heaven - 1 (MP3)  |
Dr. Art Azurdia |
Is the Church a House of Worship?  |
D.A. Carson - Q&A on Worship |
Evangelistic Worship  |
Tim Keller (pdf) |
Beyond Style Wars: Recovering the Substance of Worship  |
Michael Horton |
10 Ways to Improve your Church's Worship Service  |
Donald S. Whitney |
10 More Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service  |
Donald S. Whitney |
A Third 10 Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service  |
Donald S. Whitney |
Pleasing God in Our Worship  |
Robert Godfrey |
Setting the Stage  |
Mike Horton - "Imagine the worship service as a magnificent theater of divine action..." |
Worship at the Well  |
Kevin J. Vanhoozer - From Dogmatics to Doxology (and back again) |
Some Reflections on New Testament Hymns  |
Ralph P. Martin (pdf) |
Trends in Common Worship  |
David Phillips (pdf) |
Remembering: A Central Theme in Biblical Worship  |
Eugene H. Merrill - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2000) |
Singing, in the Body and in the Spirit  |
Steven R. Guthrie - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dec 2003) |
The Place of Music and Singing in Church  |
Vaughan Roberts |
Top Ten Ways to Write Bad Worship Songs  |
Bob Kauflin |
God Glorified in Our Worship  |
Ken Myers |
Come to Mount Zion: The Glory and Genius of New Testament Worship  |
Bill Baldwin, 1-9-98 |
A Worship Encounter: Isaiah 6:1-8 (.pdf)  |
Mike Sarkissian |
The Puritan Principle of Worship  |
William Young |
Christ in the Psalms  |
E. S. McKitrick |
Biblical, Historical, and Theological Case for Reformed Worship (MP3)  |
Terry Johnson |
Corporate Worship  |
Mark Dever |
Pluralistic Worship  |
Terry Johnson |
An Evangelical and Reformed Faith  |
Terry Johnson |
Pictures of Christ  |
John Murray |
The Worship of God in the Four Gospels  |
John Murray |
The Object of the Christian's Desire in Worship  |
John Witherspoon |
The Worshiping Community (.pdf)  |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?  |
Daniel R. Hyde |
Paradigms of Praise  |
Carl Schalk |
Praise the Lord: Song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization  |
Mark Noll |
Worshipping in Spirit and Truth  |
Jake Stutzman |
What is Reformed Worship: It is Biblical?  |
Daniel Hyde |
Multi-Cultural Worship  |
Matthew Kingswood |
Back to the Basics of Reformed Worship  |
Jon Payne |
The Worship of Christ In the Book of Hebrews  |
Jim Carnes |
Acceptable Worship (MP3 10-Part Series)  |
Rev. John Greer |
Worship  |
John A. Broadus - God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). |
The Manner of Worship  |
William Ames |
Instituted Worship  |
William Ames |
Evaluation of Innovations in Worship  |
Thomas R. Browning (.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. |
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 |
The Necessity of Reforming the Church  |
John Calvin |
The Original Geneva Bible  |
Roger Nicole |
An Introduction to Reformed Worship  |
Gregory Rickmar |
Worship & Worship Services  |
Gregg Strawbridge (online book) |
Authentic Worship  |
Harold Best |
Worhip in the Church  |
Melvin Tinker and Nathan Buttery |
The End of the Gospel - Worship  |
John Cheesman |
A Brief Guide to Presbyterian Worship  |
Andrew James Webb |
The Teaching of Jesus on Worship  |
Brian Schwertley |
Modern Worship: I'm Okay, You're Okay?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Exclusive Psalmody, No Instrumentation  |
Ra McLaughlin |
John Calvin's Views on Worship  |
Dr Robert Godfrey |
The Elements of Worship  |
Pastor Bob Burridge |
Reformed Worship  |
Reformed Theology Resource Center |
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) |
Holy, Holy, Holy  |
R.C. Sproul Jr. |
Why Worship  |
Ray Stedman |
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 |
The Lord's Day  |
Archibald Alexander |
Rediscovering Mother Kirk  |
D.G. Hart - Is High-Church Presbyterianism an Oxymoron? |