Posted in Church, Puritans, Worship on Apr 13th, 2009 4 Comments »
Have you ever wondered why many modern-day churches have an ‘altar’?
From my 20+ years in Baptist churches, I can always remember special services (usually on a Sunday night, or a revival/evangelistic service) when the preacher would invite people to come down to the ‘altar’ to pray. There, at the foot of the pulpit, in front [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Covenant Theology, Law/Gospel, Puritans, Worship on Feb 28th, 2009 4 Comments »
I have posted on the Sabbath and the Law of God a lot recently, as it is been a particular area of my study as of late. But whenever I’m infatuated with any particular study of theology, whether that be the Law, or eschatology, or thematic Biblical Theology, I always come to a point where [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Worship on Jan 31st, 2009 22 Comments »
As a follow-up to this post, where I discussed the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, I’d simply like to add a few concluding thoughts for clarity.
First, as I demonstrated, John calls one particular day of the week, the ‘Lord’s Day‘. And if we are honest in evaluating this term in light of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Church, Puritans, Worship on Jan 19th, 2009 5 Comments »
The Worship of the English Puritans
by Horton Davies
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 1573580430
Summary: A largely academic approach in examining the history of Puritan worship, but very thorough and informative on several critical issues surrounding worship and the Word of God. This is a much needed work in our day.
On the [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Worship on Jan 17th, 2009 28 Comments »
From Sam Waldron, Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith?:
“In Genesis 2:3 it says that God set apart the seventh day because He rested on that day. Recognizing that what God did in redemption was so great that nothing less than the concept of a new creation could describe it, we must understand [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Worship on Jan 12th, 2009 10 Comments »
I am spending a few posts in the coming weeks sharing various excerpts from the Michael Horton book, Christless Christianity. This is the second post in what I hope to be a mini-series examining the claims of this book.
As I have said before, I highly recommend Christless Christianity to you, as I consider it to [...]
Posted in Theology, Worship on Nov 4th, 2008 11 Comments »
“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.” – Hebrews 4:9-10
How do you understand the Bible’s teaching on the Sabbath? Of course, this Sabbath issue appears throughout scripture, first in the Garden of Eden [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Puritans, Worship on Aug 28th, 2008 11 Comments »
I found this John Owen excerpt proper considering yesterday’s post about church gimmicks and boosting attendance:
“…evangelical theology insists that the glory of religious worship is its internal and spiritual nature…To the natural man, therefore, no religious worship is pleasing unless he can see something of glory and splendor.”
“Notional religion must ever devise new rites, novel [...]
Posted in Puritans, Worship on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve heard it said that John Owen affirmed that to take away the Regulative Principle of Worship would be to take away the entire foundation of Puritanism. To this I would agree, but would add to it that a true denial of the RPW would be to undermine Christianity in its entirety, not simple [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Worship on Jun 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
The usage of the word ‘Blasphemy’ is sometimes casually thrown around by Fundamentalists in our day, almost to the point that using it in reference to an evangelical, protestant church has robbed it of its true definition and force. The dictionary defines blasphemy as irreverence, cursing God, or profaneness towards things holy and sacred, etc. [...]
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