When we worship, we come to worship God Who is three times holy. In corporate worship we are in God’s house, and so we should act like it. Reverence is understandable in light of who God is. He is transcendent, He surpasses all our ideas, thoughts and opinions about Him, He is majestic, seated in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reformed’
5 May
Worship #5: Where to From Here?
I promised in my last article to write about the apparent short comings on the ‘Baptist Confession of Faith’s’ section on worship, however, the more I have been looking at it and comparing it to other creeds I feel that I would be making a mountain out of a mole hill. The real issue still [...]
28 Apr
Worship #4: The Regulative Principle at Work… But Where?
In my last article on worship I went into detail to explain what the ‘regulative principle’ is, I also spent some time breaking worship up into its various parts, namely: Elements, form and circumstances. Today I would like to look at how these two things meet, in other words what interplay is there between the [...]
21 Apr
Worship #3: A Principle to Know
Worship is an intricate and difficult subject to address, hence the huge debate about it. I think it may be helpful at this stage to break it up into its different components before moving forward Worship is made up of three things, the elements, forms and circumstances. Let me explain what I mean by each [...]
14 Apr
Worship #2: WHY ARE WE WHERE WE ARE?
If you are starting to read this blog now, I encourage you to start on Worship #1, to get the full gist of the development of my thought. Today I wish to consider what I think we are three major reasons for why we are where we are in worship… and why the subject is [...]
7 Apr
Worship #1: Where is the Church?
I have been in Christian churches long enough to know there is much debate about worship, worship styles and such things. The spectrum ranges from people who say that Biblical worship must be boring and cause you to long for the 2nd coming, or the other group that says worship should be like what we [...]
31 Oct
Why Celebration for the Reformation?
So, today was the day… 31 October 1517, Martin Luther challenged the tyrannical religo-political system of the Catholic Church. As I considered why I celebrated the fact that God raised a man up like Luther, I thought of the far reaching effects of the reformation on everyday life and modern civilization… Ideas have consequences and [...]
15 Jul
Knowledge of God and Man Connected.
John Calvin said, “Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” This seems to be what most people think, even philosophy lectures at universities begin with the existence of God (philosophy of religion) and then [...]
11 May
Is Doctrine that Important/ The Distaste of Doctrine (Part 4)
- FOUNDATIONS – (I suggest you read Part 1,2 and 3 before this for it all to make sense) I recently brought a book, and the author was a rather popular guy in ‘Christian’ circles these days. At one point in his book he says, that he believes Jesus was born of a virgin, but [...]
28 Apr
Is Doctrine that Important/ The Distaste for Doctrine (Part 2)
-THE DISTANCE TO BE TRAVERSED- (Reading part 1 will help) As a Jesus follower I am a person who is just trying to live the way Jesus lived, to follow Him as he walked, to travel the same distance he did. I know that the path He walked is the absolute best way to walk. [...]
I am a follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Ainsley and serving as a pastor of a church plant in Johannesburg north called 
