Sometimes people comment that the New Testament gives us very little instruction regarding corporate worship, but this is not true. There are many NT passages… Read More »The Nature and Purpose of Corporate Worship: Order, Not Disorder
“Our church’s worship is pretty formal, but I prefer Holy Spirit-led worship.” Such was the comment I overheard recently by a young evangelical describing his… Read More »Decent and Orderly Worship: The Context
I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past several weeks carefully surveying the Holy Spirit’s work throughout Scripture, and specifically in passages… Read More »A Theology of the Holy Spirit’s Work in Worship
Last week, we saw that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are for the purpose of building a “holy temple in the Lord” (Eph 2:21-22). This… Read More »Ordering in Corporate Worship
The Holy Spirit’s characteristic work is not only an ordering of God’s historical-redemptive plan, but it also a moral ordering. This work begins with his… Read More »Ordering in Salvation and Sanctification
Based on a thorough survey of how the Holy Spirit works throughout Scripture, I suggested last week that although he certainly sometimes works in extraordinary… Read More »Ordering as Characteristic of the Holy Spirit’s Work
Last week I presented a brief survey of the Holy Spirit’s activity throughout Scripture, which helps to lay an important foundation for assessing his work… Read More »Is the Holy Spirit’s Work Characteristically Extraordinary Experience?
Ultimately, current expectations concerning the Holy Spirit’s work in worship must derive, not from experience, but from Scripture. In order to lay such a biblical… Read More »How Does Scripture Describe the Work of the Holy Spirit?
Last week, I noted that the most common expectation today of the Holy Spirit’s work in worship is that he will make God’s presence known… Read More »Pentecostalism’s View of the Holy Spirit’s Work in Worship
Arguably, the default expectation of contemporary evangelical worshipers is that the Holy Spirit works in worship in such a way so as to create an… Read More »Holy Spirit, come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
“Our church’s worship is pretty formal, but I prefer Holy Spirit-led worship.” Such was a comment I overheard recently by a young evangelical describing his… Read More »The Holy Spirit’s Work in Worship: Extraordinary Experience or Disciplined Formation?
Week 50: Life by the Spirit and Word Weekly memory verse: Titus 2:11–13 – “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all… Read More »Bible Narratives Devotional, Week 50: Life by the Spirit and the Word
Week 45: Jesus Ascends and Sends the Holy Spirit Weekly memory verse: 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 – “For as by a man came death, by a… Read More »Bible Narratives Devotional Week 45: Jesus Ascends and Sends the Holy Spirit
Most Christians are aware of the difference between continuationists and cessationists. They often encounter surprising difficulty, however, in pinpointing exactly what the difference is. One… Read More »Cessationism: What Is the Issue?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 I have been arguing that Paul’s method of ministry deliberately avoided… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 13)
For those who have not (yet) read it, Edwards’s Religious Affections argues what are the proper marks of a genuine work of the Holy Spirit in the life… Read More »Edwards on the proportion of reverence to boldness