How does the Bible shape the worship of the Lord? This article considers how God's Word informs and reforms our worship.

Many people tend to mistakenly think that worship is an expression we activate whenever we want to express our feelings. But, as this article explains, biblical worship is not about how we feel. Rather it is about what we know to be true about God and what he has promised in his Word.

Is it proper to worship and pray to the Holy Spirit? The article provides a biblical answer to the question.

Is it appropriate to lift your hands during worship? This article offers ten considerations on the matter, advocating for the lifting of hands in worship.

Is it possible to still glorify God in worship when you find little appeal in it? This article responds by saying that it is possible, and urges the struggling worshipper to continue to worship, with the wish and prayer that God would rekindle a thirst for worship.

Because God seeks to be worshipped on his own terms, worship should have God as the only audience, it cannot be a form of entertainment and it must have an eternal impact.

How do you draw near to God in a way that you can discover his wonders? This article addresses this question, explaining that true worship is drawing near to God in a mind renewed by the truth of God. It offers some pointers on how to prepare for worship.

This article considers Psalm 150, giving special attention to the concept of praise and worship.

How should Christians worship? One of the foci of John Calvin was worship. This article looks at Calvin's view on the importance of worship, the practice of worship, liturgy, principles of worship, and music for worship. Today's church can learn a lot from this.

This article introduces songs to be used in worship that focuses on hospitality, stewardship of creation, Ascension Day, and Pentecost.

A good liturgy should do two things: offer a way to worship and draw you to worship God as he wants.

Great care needs to be taken that the congregation be led in a way that helps them do what they have come to do in worship, that is, encounter the living God. This article reflects on practical aspects in this regard.

This article introduces and reviews the book, "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church," by Hughes Oliphant Old.

When we worship with believers who come increasingly from every tribe and language and people and nation, we should expect that worship to reflect the gifts that come from those diverse cultures, places, and people. This article reflects on the reality of our worship as coming from all nations and peoples, how it will be united in heaven, and how we even today have a foretaste of that unity.

This article explains why your church attendance is important. Worship is the intrusion of God's heavenly kingdom upon us.

Church music and singing are essential to the worship of the church. This article explains three ways in which the Psalms should shape the worship songs of the church.

Conviction of sin is hardly possible in today's Western culture. We believe not in sin and forgiveness but in illness and recovery. Increasingly, the people who gather in churches for worship come expecting to have their self-esteem enhanced.

This article reviews the book Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship, by David Peterson.

Ritual is one of the most important practices in worship. This article reflects on the importance and function of rituals and repetition in worship.

Real worship is costly. It will cost personal and corporate worship preparation. It will cost churches tendencies toward a people-pleasing style of leadership. This article (a letter) reflects such a struggle and search for real worship.

Real, authentic biblical worship is at its core a celebration of the living, dying, and rising of Christ. This article reflects upon models for evangelism through worship.

This article focuses on celebration in worship and in particular what can be learned from Africans in this respect.

This article reviews the book Participating in Worship: History, Theory, and Practice by Craig Erickson, which argues that worship needs to become more participatory through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

This article reflects on the church's worship as an echo of the praise of the heavenly chorus and celebration of Christ's completed and continuing work for us.

This article reflects three views on how the Bible ought to determine our worship.

Applause is not necessarily one of the major issues of worship, but this article wants to give some comment on it.

How does a worship leader prepare to lead the congregation in worship on Sundays? This article focuses on the personal preparation of the worship leader.

This article offers help with the planning of worship for the season after Pentecost.

This article is a short reflection on worship as an activity of the people of God that must be approached with utmost seriousness and care.

Many congregations make use of children's bulletins to help bridge the generation gap in worship. Making use of pictures and quizzes, such bulletins involve the children in the service and answer some of the questions children ask about worship and general church life. This article gives some suggestions on how to use such a bulletin to enhance the participation of children in the worship service.

This article discusses the use of handbells as musical instrument in worship.

Gratitude for a church's heritage and reflection on its significance can add depth to its worship. This article wants to be a help in preparation of a Reformation Day liturgy.

A frequently debated question on public worship is, Which are more appropriate in the worship service—free prayers or set prayers? This article reflects on the place of spontaneous and formal prayers in worship.

Do you preach doxologically? This article shows how preaching itself needs to be an act of worship.

This article discusses the meaning of the blessing at the beginning of the worship service. The author shows that it is intended to fill the service with the warmth of God’s grace, mercy, and peace.

The order of worship is something whose meaning and significance can be lost on worshippers. By focusing on the meaning of the salutation at the beginning of a worship service, the author shows that understanding the meaning of this can keep worshipers humble and grateful for God’s grace.

Is there a link between worship and ethics in Romans 12? Too often the main inspiration for Paul's thinking behind this text is ignored. The biblical-theological background to Paul's argument and the wider context of Romans must be taken into consideration. Peterson argues that the first two verses of Romans 12 proclaim a reversal of the downward spiral depicted in Romans 1.

The Reformation restored worship and liturgy to the biblical standard. This article shows how this happened in Scotland under John Knox.

What is central to Christian worship? This article answers this question by pointing out that the heart of Christian worship is the authentic preaching of the Word of God.

Preaching should lead to worship. How many sermons have you heard, did they make you behold your God? If you will be preaching or hearing a sermon in the future, then read this article, for a refresher on what the goal of preaching is.

Public worship is a means of grace. How can you benefit from public worship? This article lists three things.

This is a study of the main ethical points found in the decision of the Jerusalem council in Acts 15:4-29. It proposes that the council members attitudes of mutual trust, honoring God and his Word, and responding with some concession toward the others form important parts of the ethical teaching. The situation of the council is described in terms of the historical background and the flow of the narrative.

How do you deal with distractions of the mind during worship? This article looks at three such types and how you can remedy them.

This article on worship shows by way of Psalm 100 the ways in which the church should worship on Sundays: with joy, gratitude, and sincerity.

What is the role of congregational praise in worship? This article is a short survey of some of the biblical evidence.

Worship that aims at God’s glory will be characterized by solemnity, simplicity, and orderliness. This article explains what this all means.

The call for liturgical renewal, that worship be more user-friendly, exuberant, and ritualistic is a man-centred call. This article shows why this call is not biblical, defending the Reformed character of worship.

To worship God is to enter God’s presence in order to have fellowship with him. This article explains the character of this worship and its nature.

This article reflects on music in worship, and offers five observations on how a congregation can find an authentic voice in worship. Among the points of discussion is a reflection on how to sort through music.

This article reflects on music in worship, and says that it must be congregationally sound; it needs to be an authentic expression of the voice of the church body. Just how that voice is shaped is under discussion in the article.

This article reflects on music in worship, and says that it must be structurally sound. The text and the tune need to be well-matched. The article provides a host of useful questions to ask in evaluating the merits of a song for worship, and they revolve around three standards: the insight, perfection, and inexhaustibility of the song.

This article reflects on music in worship, and says that in the first place it must be doctrinally sound. The article provides a whole host of useful questions that one needs to ask of the text of a song before it is used.

Reformed worship has been accused of being a one-man show. This article shows that such an accusation cannot stand. From the beginning the Reformers understood that all members participate in public worship.

The second commandment is related to how God’s people must worship him. This article looks at the reasons why God forbids the use of images. It looks at the explanation of this commandment from Lord’s Day 35, showing that it points to a regulative principle of worship.

Psalm singing and the regulative principle of worship cannot be separated. This article calls for singing psalms in worship, giving both the historical and biblical grounds for such a call.

The act and content of worship are important to God. Knowing this should shape the way congregational worship is conducted. From Psalm 96:9 this article shows that worship must be covenantal, holy, and fearful.

This article looks at the place of preaching, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper in public worship.

Reformed worship cannot be judged by whether is it traditional or contemporary. In its nature it is covenantal. The nature of covenant worship is found in its union between God and his people, centred on God’s Word. In this article the focus is on preaching in worship.

What is worship? It is essentially the glorifying of God by responding to his revelation of himself.

This article considers what happens when worship appeals to the senses of man: a return the Old Testament forms of worship.

Does it really matter how we worship God? This article comments on the matter through the lens of the account of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4:1-5.