Public worship and the Lord's Day; the ordinances and means of grace; reverence, liturgy, and the gathering of God's people.
- Devotion Through Domestic Service John Calvin
If a woman were to spend all day long in church, praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed …
- First Foundation of Righteousness John Calvin
Surely the first foundation of righteousness is the worship of God.
- Honor the Lord with your wealth Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
- Amplified "Worship Teams" and Congregational Singing Andy Crouch
The granting of the power of amplification to ‘worship teams’ in American Christianity has done more than anything since the Protestant Reformation to undermine …
- Calvin on Submission to Authority John Calvin
Knowing that someone has been placed over by the Lord’s ordination, we should render to him reverence, obedience, and gratefulness, and should perform such other duties …
- Christ and the Day of Atonement Gavin Ortlund
For Stephen Charnock, the high priest’s activity on the Day of Atonement in Lev 16 prefigured Christ’s priestly ministry in at least three ways.
First, his sacrificing …
- Temporal Wants John Lorimer
Our blessed Lord does not, like some of his professed followers, make light of temporal wants.
- Psalms for Dark Times Charles Spurgeon
When it is very dark with us, let brave spirits say, ‘Come, let us sing the forty-sixth Psalm.’
- The Idol Self John Newton
Dear Lord, the idol self dethrone And from our hearts remove And let no zeal by us be shown But that which springs from love
- Spurgeon on Prayer Meetings Charles Spurgeon
Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
- Use of Creation William Greenhill
Six ways that we can use God’s creation well and right.
Use all things for the end that God has made them [for the glory of God]. Walk with God in the use of the world …
- Children Praying Our Father? Sinclair Ferguson
For, despite protests to the contrary, it is difficult to see how evangelicals can, with theological consistency, teach their children to say ‘Our Father’ and to sing …
- Pray for the Church John Owen
He who does not continue to pray for the Lord’s glory to remain on the church is not worthy of its privileges. Prayer, then, for the good, prosperity, flourishing peace, …
- Our Chief Ambition Thomas Watson
Oh let this be the thing we are chiefly ambitious of, the enjoyment of God in his ordinances!
- Deacons and the Nazis Frederick Herzog
When during World War II the Netherlands were occupied by Germans the deacons of the Dutch Reformed Church assumed the care for the politically persecuted, supplying food …
- Go to the Ordinances Thomas Watson
Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, You will honor and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as …
- Value of Hymns Fernando Ortega
When you take a pop song and weigh it down with the gospel it sort of cheapens both. The theology is too heavy for the song, and the song usually ends up being too light …
- Principle Duty of Husband and Wife Richard Baxter
A principal duty between husband and wife is with special care and skill and diligence to help each other in the knowledge and worship and obedience of God in order to …
- The Theological Significance of the Call to Worship Glen Clary
The call to worship tells us something very theologically significant. God summons us into his presence to worship him. … We are summoned into the presence of God to join …
- Beeke on Prayer Meetings Joel Beeke
If your minister were to announce that at your forthcoming prayer meeting, the apostle Paul would appear, the entire congregation would attend. That, if course, will not …
- Countercultural Christianity Donald A. Carson, Douglas Moo
By refusing to engage in the quasi-religious customs surrounding the official Roman governmental structures, by resolutely setting themselves against some of the immoral …
- Religion of the Bible Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
The religion of the Bible thus announces itself, not as the product of men’s search after God, if haply they may feel after Him and find Him, but as the creation in men …
- He who would be wise Charles Spurgeon
He who would be wise must worship.
- Improve What you Hear Richard Baxter
And when hypocrites and distempered Christians are quarreling with the imperfections of the speaker, or congregation, the mode of worship, do you rather make it your …
- Unloose my Stamm'ring Tongue John Newton
When he came, the angels sung, ‘Glory be to God on high;’ / Lord, unloose my stamm’ring tongue, Who should louder sing than I?
- Glory in Our Good Works Geerhardus Vos
God does not grant us his work of grace so that we should glory in it as our own. Therefore he so arranged it that it would manifestly be his work from beginning to end, …
- Little Necessary Things John Newton
Religion does not consist in doing great things, for which few of us have frequent opportunities, but in doing the little necessary things of daily occurrence with a …
- Two Directional Singing Oskar Söhngen
The singing of the congregation takes place, as it were, in two directions: facing the other members of the congregation and facing God.
- Woodrow Wilson in Church James Taylor
On many occasions when the policies of President Wilson were being vigorously attacked he would come to the services on Sunday mornings and sit in his place in the house …
- Scheduling Presbytery by the Moon Woodrow Wilson
I remember that the Stated Clerks of those Presbyteries gave me gave a great deal of trouble. Some of them, particularly of the country Presbyteries would not consult the …
- Psalm 103 Charles Spurgeon
There is too much in [Psalm 103], for a thousand pens to write, it is one of those all-comprehending Scriptures which is a Bible in itself, and it might alone almost …
- Planning to Give Kevin DeYoung
Almost no one will give faithfully and generously without planning to give faithfully and generously.
- Semi Foetal Position Paul Levy
Why do people often go into the semi foetal position when holding the bread, scrunch up their eyes as if they are trying to imagine Jesus on the cross. It’s a Protestant …
- I Sing the Goodness of the Lord Isaac Watts
I sing the goodness of the Lord / That filled the earth with food; / He formed the creatures with his word, / And then pronounced them good.
- Forget Not His Benefits King David
Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
- A Sense of Solemnity in Worship Hughes Oliphant Old
For generations, a sense of solemnity was characteristic of Presbyterian worship. Then some wag accused them of being the ‘frozen chosen,’ and they hung their heads in …
- Mark Dever on Conversion Mark Dever
It’s not reciting a creed. It’s not saying a prayer. It’s not a conversation. It’s not becoming a Westerner. It’s not reaching a certain age, attending a class, or …
- Duties in the First Commandment Westminster Divines
A. 104: The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him …
- Danny Hyde on the Lord's Day Daniel Hyde
All of this teaches us that instead of seeing the Lord’s Day as a rule that stifles our ‘weekend,’ we need to view it as a gift from God that actually structures our …
- I Will Sing to the Lord King David
I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
- At the Lamb's high feast we sing Unknown
Where the paschal blood is poured, death’s dark angel sheathes his sword; Israel’s host triumphant go though the wave that drowns the foe. Praise we Christ, whose blood …
- Directories of Worship Terry Johnson
The current situtation, where even churches which identify themselves as heirs of the Reformation, such as the PCA, and which, in the name of freedom, fail to provide …