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 |
Evangelistic Worship  |
Tim Keller (pdf) |
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 |
10 More Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service  |
Donald S. Whitney |
10 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..." |
Some Reflections on New Testament Hymns  |
Ralph P. Martin (pdf) |
Worship at the Well  |
Kevin J. Vanhoozer - From Dogmatics to Doxology (and back again) |
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) |
Trends in Common Worship  |
David Phillips (pdf) |
A Brief Guide to Presbyterian Worship  |
Andrew James Webb |
A Reformed Theology of Worship  |
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (.pdf) |
A Short Explanation on Why We Use a "Liturgy?"  |
Rev. Danny Hyde |
A Worship Encounter: Isaiah 6:1-8 (.pdf)  |
Mike Sarkissian |
Acceptable Worship (MP3 10-Part Series)  |
Rev. John Greer |
Aesthetics And The Place Of Beauty In Worship (.pdf)  |
John Mason Hodges, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 59-74. |
An Evangelical and Reformed Faith  |
Terry Johnson |
An Introduction to Reformed Worship  |
Gregory Rickmar |
Authentic Worship  |
Harold Best |
Back to the Basics of Reformed Worship  |
Jon Payne |
Biblical Worship  |
Kevin Reed |
Biblical, Historical, and Theological Case for Reformed Worship (MP3)  |
Terry 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. |
Christ Himself in the Assemblies of His People  |
John Murray |
Christ in the Psalms  |
E. S. McKitrick |
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. |
Come to Mount Zion: The Glory and Genius of New Testament Worship  |
Bill Baldwin, 1-9-98 |
Corporate Worship  |
Mark Dever |
Discerning The Spirits: Making Wise Choices In An Era Of Liturgical Change  |
John D. Witoliet, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 15-28 |
Evaluation of Innovations in Worship  |
Thomas R. Browning (.pdf) |
Exclusive Psalmody, No Instrumentation  |
Ra McLaughlin |
For Whom Is Worship?  |
Peter Leithart |
Form or Heart?  |
J.C. Ryle (.doc) |
God Glorified in Our Worship  |
Ken Myers |
Holy, Holy, Holy  |
R.C. Sproul Jr. |
How Sweet And Awful Is The Place: Zion And Congregational Worship (.pdf)  |
Gregg Strawbridge, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 45-61. |
Instituted Worship  |
William Ames |
Introduction to Worship  |
Terry Johnson |
Is Our Worship Adequately Triune? (.pdf)  |
Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 121-129 |
Is They Heart Right?  |
J.C. Ryle (.doc) |
Jesus Our Worship Leader: The Mediating Work Of The Son In Worship (.pdf)  |
Ron Man, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 31-43. |
John Calvin's Views on Worship  |
Dr Robert Godfrey |
Liturgy of the Reformed Church  |
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Martin Luther and Psalm Singing  |
David Steele |
Modern Worship: I'm Okay, You're Okay?  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Multi-Cultural Worship  |
Matthew Kingswood |
Musical Idolatry: Non Nobi (MP3)  |
Charles D. King, Reformation & Revival 7.3 (Summer 1998): 121-143. |
On Christian Worship  |
Zacharius Ursinus |
On the Use of Arts in Worship  |
Nathan Pitchford |
Paradigms of Praise  |
Carl Schalk |
Pictures of Christ  |
John Murray |
Pluralistic Worship  |
Terry Johnson |
Praise the Lord: Song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization  |
Mark Noll |
Principles of Reformed Worship  |
Escondido United Reformed Church |
Q&A about Postmodern Worship Contemporary Music & Ancient Liturgy  |
Greg Johnson |
Rediscovering Mother Kirk  |
D.G. Hart - Is High-Church Presbyterianism an Oxymoron? |
Reformed Worship  |
Reformed Theology Resource Center |
The Beauty of Reformed Litergy  |
Rev. G. VanDooren |
The Beauty of Reformed Worship  |
G. VanDooren |
The Book Of Revelation And The Subject Of Worship (.pdf)  |
Tom Wells, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 93-106 |
The Directory for the Publick Worship of God  |
Westminster Confession Subordinate Standards |
The Elements of Worship  |
Pastor Bob Burridge |
The End of the Gospel - Worship  |
John Cheesman |
The Epistle To The Hebrews And Worship (.pdf)  |
Tom Wells, Reformation & Revival 9.2 (Spring 2000): 115-129. |
The Lord's Day  |
Archibald Alexander |
The Manner of Worship  |
William Ames |
The Necessity of Reforming the Church  |
John Calvin |
The Object of the Christian's Desire in Worship  |
John Witherspoon |
The Original Geneva Bible  |
Roger Nicole |
The Place of Music and Singing in Church  |
Vaughan Roberts |
The Puritan Principle of Worship  |
William Young |
The Strassburg Liturgy (1545)  |
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The Teaching of Jesus on Worship  |
Brian Schwertley |
The Worship of Christ In the Book of Hebrews  |
Jim Carnes |
The Worship of God in the Four Gospels  |
John Murray |
The Worshiping Community (.pdf)  |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
Top Ten Ways to Write Bad Worship Songs  |
Bob Kauflin |
What is Reformed Worship: It is Biblical?  |
Daniel Hyde |
What's a Worship Leader to Do?  |
Bob Kauflin 14-Part Essay |
Whatever Happened to God?  |
Donald G. Bloesch |
Why is Reformed Worship so Serious?  |
Daniel R. Hyde |
Why Worship  |
Ray Stedman |
Worhip in the Church  |
Melvin Tinker and Nathan Buttery |
Worship  |
John A. Broadus - God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). |
Worship & Worship Services  |
Gregg Strawbridge (online book) |
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 Two (.pdf)  |
Ronald B. Allen, Reformation & Revival 9.3 (Summer 2000): 109-118. |
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 Is More Than a List  |
Jack D. Kinneer |
Worship of Christ and the Biblical Covenant (.pdf)  |
Richard C. Leonard, Reformation & Revival 2:2 (Spring 1993): 101-120. |
Worship Wars  |
Maureen Bradley |
Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?  |
Robert Godfrey |
Worshipping in Spirit and Truth  |
Jake Stutzman |