The Beauty of Holiness: A Guide to Biblical Worship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The controversy about worship styles has degenerated into arguments based on personal preference. If there is any overriding biblical truth that must circumscribe every worship practice, it is that worship is all about God and not about us. There is little hope of worshiping in a manner that is pleasing to the Lord if we do not start with the Bible and stress what it stresses. The Beauty of Holiness is a guide to what the Bible says about the objective, manner, and the heart of worship.
- Provides Scripture to explain and discuss what true biblical worship looks like
- Examines how biblical worship brings us into the presence of God
- Points the conversation of worship towards God, and what pleases him
- The Danger of Worship
- A Warning from Isaiah
- A Warning from Jeremiah
- A Warning from Ezekiel
- The Object of Worship
- Theocentric Worship
- Trinitarian Worship
- The Subject of Worship
- The August Person of God
- The Attractive Perfections of God
- The Awesome Works of God
- The Liturgy of Worship
- Reading Scripture
- Praying
- Preaching
- Singing
- Aids for Worship
- The Sabbath: A Time for Worship
- Sacraments: Tools for Worship
- Examples of Worship
- The Example of Moses
- The Example of Isaiah
- The Example of John
- Paradigms for Worship
- Focus of the Psalms
- Formula in the Psalms
- Function of the Psalms
Top Highlights
“God has never been and will never be satisfied with heartless worship. Heartless worship is a major pitfall to avoid.” (Page 10)
“If there is any overriding biblical truth that must circumscribe every worship practice, it is that worship is all about God and not about us.” (Page 3)
“External religion breeds spiritual insensitivity by making the ‘worshipper’ oblivious to his real spiritual condition.” (Page 12)
“Worship centers on God, not man: it is Theocentric, not anthropocentric. God is to be worshipped for what He is worth and not for what worshipping Him may gain for the worshipper. Worshipping God as a means to an end rather than as the end itself turns worship away from God to man.” (Page 41)
“Since true worship flows from the knowledge of God, it follows that improper thinking about God contaminates and invalidates any act of worship.” (Page 13)
Michael P. V. Barrett is the president of Geneva Reformed Seminary and an associate minister of Faith Free Presbyterian Church, Greenville, South Carolina. Raised in a Christian home, he was converted as a child and was called to the Christian ministry early in his college career. By divine providence, he was led to pursue that ministerial call in the field of academics. He earned his doctorate in Old Testament text with a special focus on Semitic languages. Formerly a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, Barrett has had an active role in the ministry of the Free Presbyterian Church since its inception in North America. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and has published numerous articles in both professional and popular journals.