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Preparing for the Sabbath
Leave a CommentI have been blessed with the arguments for Sabbath-keeping from Ryan M. McGraw’s article, “Five Reasons why the Sabbath is Designed for Worship.” (Puritan Reformed Journal, July 2009)
A summary:
1. The Situation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The Sabbath was designed for worship.
2. God “sanctified” the Sabbath. He “hallowed” or set it apart for the purposes of worship.
3. The Commandement’s position among the Ten Commandments. The first four commandments address our relation to God with respect to worship, the fourth commandment puts emphasis on this.
4. Character of the Commands to keep the Sabbath. The duties related to the Sabbath observance are duties related to worship.
5. Connection of the Sabbath to the hope of heaven. It is a type of heaven, a place solely conusmed with the worship of God.
Puritan Reformed Journal
Volume 1 Number 2, July 2009 Issue
Table of Contents
BIBLICAL STUDIES
Bright Shadows: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (2)—David Murray
Heart-Reading: Recovering a Spiritual Approach to the Bible—Gerald Bilkes
Significance of Suffering in the Study of First Peter—Brian Najapfour
Love of the Brethren in 1 John and Church History—Michael A.G. Haykin
SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Cur Deus Homo? A Closer Look at the Atonement Theories of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux—Jonathon Beeke
Calvin on the Promises of God—Pieter DeVries
Omnipotent Sweetness? Puritanism versus Socinianism—Joel M. Heflin
“To Walk According to the Gospel”: The Origin and History of The Marrow of Modern Divinity—William Van Doodewaard
The Reformed Dogmatics of G.H. Kersten Compared with His Older Contemporaries, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck—Pieter Rouwendal
EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY
Calvin as an Experiential Preacher—Joel R. Beeke
Blessedness in the Piety of William Perkins: Objective Reality or Subjective Experience?—Stephen Yuille
The Biblical-Experimental Foundations of Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Religious Experience, 1720–1723—Karin Spiecker Stetina
PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS
According to the Custom of the Ancient Church? Examining the Roots of John Calvin’s Liturgy—Daniel R. Hyde
John Calvin and Missions—Derek Thomas
Five Reasons why the Sabbath is Designed for Worship—Ryan M. McGraw
CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES
Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?—Ray Pennings
Because Men Love Darkness: Culture’s Dangerous Infatuation with Halloween—David J. Bissett
Interview with Joel Beeke about Reformed Churches and Seminaries
REVIEW ARTICLES
Theology of the Old Testament—Pieter DeVries
Continuity or Discontinuity in Evangelical History—Sharon James
Jay E. Adams, Keeping the Sabbath Today?—Ryan M. McGraw
The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism—Randall J. Pederson
BOOK REVIEWS
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.
Wendy Horger Alsup, Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in our Daily Lives—Tracy Mickle
Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.
M. X. Lesser, Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729–2005—Randall J. Pederson
George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards—Randall J. Pederson
HT: Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, http://www.oceansideurc.org
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Redeemer Seminary
Welcome and Congratulations!
Inaugural Convocation of Redeemer Seminary
All are invited to the inaugural convocation of Redeemer Seminary
on Monday, February 16, 7:30 pm,
in the Park Cities Presbyterian Church Sanctuary.
The speaker will be Dr. Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, and author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God.
“Why Reformed?”
Nathan Pitchford states five reasons why there is a resurgence among the youth:
1. Dissatisfaction with the theology and religious environment of our parents.
2. Desire for a rootedness and connectedness with the historic faith.
3. The resurgence of Puritan literature.
4. John Piper.
5. The internet (and Monergism in particular).
“I love historic Reformed Worship”
“Back to the Basics of Reformed Worship” by John Payne (Grace Presbyterian Church)
Reformed Chameleons?
I love historic Reformed worship. It is assiduously biblical in form and substance, intentionally Trinitarian in nature and scope, and, at its best, is warm, joyful, and reverent. There is, however, a disconcerting and, might I add, wrongheaded trend among many self-identified Reformed and confessional Christians in our day. My guess is that many readers of Ref21 have observed it. It is the bold trajectory away from the simple, God-centered, ordinary-means-of-grace-driven approach to public worship (which has characterized the Reformed Church for centuries) to one that is more broadly evangelical and, in some cases, unreservedly pragmatic. More troubling still is the growing number of ordained ministers within theologically conservative, Reformed and confessional denominations who have avowed to promote and defend Reformed doctrine and yet do not seem to connect the dots between the essential tenets of Reformed dogma and the nature of public worship on the Lord’s Day.
Read more at Reformation21.
