Regulative principle of worship
212The Best and Worst of Christmas Carols
10 Mar 2025
11:41¶ 40
“Yeah, we’re not supposed to do things like that. So the assumption that the church calendar is necessarily evil sort of begs the question.…”
12:07¶ 41
“I’m sorry, which Bible are you reading? The one where Esther and Mordecai establish a feast called Purim, without any obvious divine revelation? And…”
189The Covenant of Kingship
15 Apr 2024
35:47¶ 96
“And in the whole form of worship that we practice today, we didn’t come up with that. Even the most hardcore regulative principle adherence…”
37:10¶ 99
“Our friends who value the regulative principle in its more extreme forms are of course very devoted to the Word of God. We will…”
33:24¶ 91
“Sure. Just a note, it’s kind of anachronistic to the temple but there are certain denominations or factions of Christianity that will eschew the…”
165Esther
19 Jun 2023
40:37¶ 132
“We can consider this in terms of what we sometimes call the regular principle of worship. It conforms. God’s people and God himself had…”
39:54¶ 130
“One thing that we could consider as we now go back and pick up some pieces here and there, they weren’t prophets. They weren’t…”
40:20¶ 131
“They understood that it is good and right to celebrate from generation to generation the great acts of God in history, and this was…”
107The Tabernacle of David
28 Feb 2022
20:36¶ 71
“There’s a prescribed order for coming to God in worship. Now, under the gospel it’s much simpler than it was in Israel. Israel was…”
20:50¶ 72
“With us it has an awful lot to do with preaching the gospel in purity and humbly listening and then responding with praise and…”
21:16¶ 73
“That’s where the overwhelming weight of Paul’s warnings, the writer of Hebrews, Peter and James come down on John. “And while you’re doing this…”
58The Calendar in Context
7 Feb 2021
18:53¶ 73
“We’ve dealt before with the regulative principle of worship, and I think sometimes it overlooks rather obvious things like you want a clear command…”
19:16¶ 74
“When Jesus came, there were cups of wine that were part of the Passover celebration. God never authorized it. He never specified it, and…”
19:39¶ 75
“He took what was a logical – I won’t say addition, but extrapolation from what God had said, and used it to ignite the…”
38Image and Word (part 2)
20 Sep 2020
1:03¶ 6
“What I want to address here is what in the Reformed tradition is called the regulative principle of worship, that is centered around not…”
1:37¶ 10
“They have traditionally said that this lays out the principle that God determines how he is worshiped. The other nations, the pagan nations surrounding…”
4:43¶ 18
“There’s many, many implications that you can take from that, and any number of doctrines, but the regulative principle of worship in particular is…”