Reflections

No, I’m not referring to “Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic” but to Remembering, Recovering and Reforming.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about worship, and especially about worship at EAMC. What is it? Why do we do it? And how do we do it?

In his book, Worship is a Verb (1992), Wheaton College professor Robert Webber writes, “Worship isn’t an entertaining showcase for a talented (choir) or a lecture on textual criticism or a pleasant weekly reunion of friends and family. Instead, true worship is a joyous celebration of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.” ....

On July Fourth we will be celebrating 242 years of independence from England. Many of us will be doing so with a picnic with family and friends. We might even watch some fireworks afterwards. But as we do, I’d like us to think about exactly what it is we are celebrating...

So what is the significance of Father’s Day for the modern church? Perhaps more than ever we need to see fatherhood as a God-ordained role in family life...