Category Archives: Liturgy

What Is the Regulative Principle?

By | July 19, 2016

“According to the Reformation principle of worship (which is only the Reformers’ application in the area of worship of their principial sola Scriptura position), true worship may include only those matters which God has either expressly commanded in Scripture or which may be deduced from Scripture by good and necessary consequence . . . while… Read More »

Why My Church Observes “Close” Communion

By | June 15, 2015

Here’s a summary on the titled topic that I put in our church bulletin this past week. Hope you find it helpful. — Why We Observe “Close” Communion There are three labels that describe how churches practice communion with respect to who participates or not: unrestricted, restricted, and strict. We know them more commonly as… Read More »

The Sabbath, Sunday, and the Lord’s Day

By | December 3, 2014

Must Sunday be the church’s weekly day of worship? Is Sunday the Christian Sabbath? This article all-too-briefly surveys numerous passages that have been used to answer these questions in different ways. This article gives my own response to these difficult questions, one response that differs from others who seek to be faithful to Scripture. God… Read More »