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Showing posts with label Regulative Principle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regulative Principle. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Regulative Principle - Elements and Circumstances

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1689 London Baptist Confession. “Of the Holy Scriptures.” 1.6 “The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, m...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Worship

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Worship defined: ( verb ) to render religious reverence and homage to God; to adore, pay honor and reverence to; to attend services of divi...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Pictures of Jesus

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I have long thought Jesus did not look like any of the portraits we generally see of him. This ties in with a question that comes to the min...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Informed Worship links

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Steve M. Schlissel, pastor of Messiah’s Congregation in Brooklyn, New York, has written series of articles on what he calls Informed Worship...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Regulative Principle

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Excerpt from The Regulative Principle of Worship by Derek Thomas Where does the Bible teach “The acceptable way of worshiping the true God, ...
Monday, February 15, 2021

The divine word is the only safe directory

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No acts of worship can properly be called holy, but such as the Almighty has enjoined. No man, nor any body of men have any authority to inv...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Hübmaier replies to Warfield

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…or something like that. [i] Presbyterian B. B. Warfield (1851-1921) writes, “It is true that there is no express command to baptiz...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

“Regulative Worship” in Baptist Thought

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Some random quotations on “ the Regulative Principle ” from Baptists First London Confession ( 1644 / 1646 ) Article 7: “The Rule of...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Inclusio unius, exclusio alterius (reprise)

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" Inclusio unius, exclusio alterius " is a legal code at least as old as the civil law of the Romans. It means "inclusion of ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Why Not Lent?

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In a recent blog post, Southern Baptist pastor Bart Barber wrote, “Lent is not in the Bible, nor anything resembling it. Movement toward Len...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Biblical prayer

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God commands prayer of His people (Luke 18:1; Ephesians 6:18; Colossians 4:2; I Thessalonians 5:17), and provides His Son and Spirit for int...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Worship and Ministry, God’s Way – 3 principles

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“They didn’t have it in Bible times.” “They didn’t do it that way in Bible times.” This is how some people attempt to explain their approach...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Singing the Psalms

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In the previous posts I have taken a hard line against Exclusive Psalmody -- even positing that it encourages disobedience to the New Testam...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

An odd debate

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Or maybe I should say an old debate. When 17th century Baptist Benjamin Keach tried to "repair a breach in the worship of God" -...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

New Testament singing

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New Testament singing: Why the New Covenant revelation should be included in hymning the Lamb I advocate  “New Testament singing”  – singi...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Exclusive Psalmody, categorization and inspiration

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Another categorization Yesterday’s post contains two possible categorizations of approaches to worship through singing in the church, by Mi...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Exclusive Psalmody versus Exclusive Hymnody

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Exclusive Psalmody versus Exclusive Hymnody (and the points in between) “The issue of church music must be approached with great carefulne...