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To shape a child’s religious imagination means teaching him to rightly understand, use, and judge the arts. For a Christian parent, music is at the top of the list of the arts to be taught. Music is commanded in worship (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16), commended for worship (Ps 150), and has perhaps the greatest power [...]
Continue Reading →It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought. “As nothing is [...]
Continue Reading →Ceremonies and rituals are crucial for shaping a child’s imagination. In the last post, we considered the ceremony of corporate worship.
A second ceremony we need to build into our lives is family worship. Family worship does not need to be elaborate. It needs to be sincere and thoughtful. Family worship is a time, ideally [...]
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We have looking at different reasons why the regular meeting for worship with one’s church is better than private meetings of worship, including times of personal devotion and family worship. Both, we have consistently stressed, are essential for vital piety in the life of a [...]
Continue Reading →All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God…
The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems . . .but even if the multiple burdens of time may [...]
Continue Reading →Private and public worship are not the same. There is a difference between the regular, ordinary times of worship for a gathered group of Christians organized as a church and the irregular times of worship personally, in our homes as families, and with other [...]
Continue Reading →If you aren’t at least somewhat familiar with the recent controversy over T. D. Jakes, James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, and the Elephant Room, you’ve probably been hibernating in a cave somewhere. Others have given helpful responses from various perspectives including ecclesiastical separation, unity, Continue Reading →
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