Category Archives: Worship
An Hour and a Half Invitation to Believe the Gospel…
If you were to ask me, “Does your Church give an invitation each Sunday?” I would tell you, “Yes it does and it lasts about an hour and a half.” For the uninitiated, an “invitation” is the portion of a … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tips… Do You Really Want a Wife?
This is a post that originated as two posts on Facebook. Here they are slightly edited. – al stout In Doug Wilson’s book, Father Hunger, he says, “Men used to marry regularly at around age twenty-three, and now it is … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip… The weight of honor and the temptations that come with it.
This was adopted from a letter I wrote my son as he enters into his senior year of high school: What will you do with the honor given to you? The accolades, the positions of influence and responsibility, the leadership … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip of the Day… Sing!
If you don’t sing in Church you are harming your children. I think one of the main reasons why the quality of congregational singing is often so bad, is that we have turned worship inward. We don’t sing praises TO … Continue reading
Liturgy Is History…
… what does your history look like? Looking at our worship service, someone might ask, “Do y’all preach the gospel in your Church?” To which I answer, “Every Sunday.” * There is nothing wasted in our liturgy, it is packed … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip of the Day… Liturgies
We all have liturgies. We have ways of ordering our lives so that we might present ourselves acceptable to the one we worship. In the Old Covenant there were Psalms to be sung before entering into sacrifice, there were washings, … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip of the Day… Calendars
This is the year of our Lord, 2013. Do you believe that? Of course this statement does not make much sense in a world where “our Lord” is not recognized as the great keeper of history, Lord of time itself. … Continue reading
The Purpose of Jesus
Who is the King? Jesus came into the world to answer this question. All of human history leads up to this question. When Caesar Augustus was crowned Emperor, he was declared, The Divine Son. Virgil described his birth this way, … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip of the Day… Children need to worship
Put mature worship before your children and they will gravitate to it. Involve them in the singing of Psalms and kneeling for confession of sin. Separating your little ones from your presence in worship also removes them from God’s presence. … Continue reading
Important Parenting Tip of the Day… Who is Shaping Whom?
You are not the first couple to have children. (I could stop there) Some things to keep in mind in relation to that… 1. The Church is not shaped by your children; rather it is the other way around. 2. … Continue reading
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