Worship

The following messages are from the 2023 Union Gathering.

For Expectant Mothers ONLY. Who knew a parking lot could be so cruel? It was like I just got rejected from the Mommy Club. “No barren women allowed.” The sign could have said: For women whose bodies work right. For women who have had their prayers answered. For women who have something to look forward to. For women with something to expect.

Has it been a long time since you were deeply, genuinely wonderstruck at the nature of God? One of the healthiest things we can do is recalibrate our perceptions of God by looking afresh at his Word. Put simply, the Bible is impressed with who God is. And rightly so, because of who God actually is.

In the fourth of five instalments reading through Luther's teaching on the first commandment, we come to the threat and the promise God attached to it. 

Nathan Fellingham and David Fellingham help us think about music, singing, worship, and the Trinity. 

Dan Hames reads Luther's teaching on the First Commandment from his Large Catechism in the first of five instalments. 

Horatius Bonar's 1875 book draws on the book of Hebrews and looks at the cross as the end of humanity's separation from God. 

Gregory of Nyssa gives a brief exhortation on the Christian faith in the face of idolatry and heresy. 

Martin Luther's utterly brilliant exposition of the first commandment from his Large Catechism. 

Brian Rosner shows how misguided worship is part of the human problem, and how the gospel saves us from it.