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by Nathan Eshelman | Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy wounded side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Save from wrath and make me...

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Book Reviews and Giveaway Book Review: Worthy: The Worship of God by Nathan Eshelman Giveaway: 4 Books from Grassmarket Press: I Have a Confession, What is Love? Worship/Feasting/Rest/Mercy, and Worthy

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Features Sunday Tapes: Come People of the Risen King, Trust in Him at All Times, Hymn of Heaven, Psalm 62, Ancient of Days, Rehearsal Sermons that Speak the Truth: 3 Prompts for Preachers

Book Reviews and Giveaway Book Review: Worthy: The Worship of God by Nathan Eshelman Giveaway: 4 Books from Grassmarket Press: I Have a Confession, What is Love? Worship/Feasting/Rest/Mercy, and Worthy

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Book Review: Worthy, by Nathan Eshelman

What is the right way to worship? In Worthy, Nathan Eshelman expounds on the worship of God. 

A Weight to Worship

At just a little bit less than 150 pages, this book packs a punch. Eshelman begins by helping us understand the word “worship.” It includes mental devotion, heart-filled praise, soulful trust, and time-sacrificing service. There is a weight to the word, and it must be used rightly with God. 

Eshelman explains why God is worthy of worship. Creation, covenants, claims from the cross, and our communion with God are examined. The book then turns to how we have mishandled the worship of God and why we need direction. We study Cain’s vegetables, Aaron and the golden calf, and more.

Explanations and Encouragement

The solution is found when our worship is regulated to God’s Word. I especially appreciated the distinction made between elements and circumstances regarding worship. It takes wisdom and discernment to determine which is which. Interestingly, when concerning the public gathering of the church, Eshelman argues for acappella Psalm-singing. While I don’t come to the same conclusions, I appreciate his defenses.

The book ends by looking towards the global worship of God. This book is an excellent guide to the reason and rationale behind Reformed worship, and a great source of encouragement to the church to continue his praises.

I received a media copy of Worthy and this is my honest review. Find more of my book reviews and follow Dive In, Dig Deep on Instagram - my account dedicated to Bibles and books to see the beauty of the Bible and the role of reading in the Christian life. To read all of my book reviews and to receive all of the free eBooks I find on the web, subscribe to my free newsletter.

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TGIF: Roundup for January 27, 2023

Hannah Chao and I released a podcast episode to take you behind-the-scenes of the new edition of our SOLA Network Magazine! Find the video and transcript on our website.

Curtis Yee reported in Christianity Today: After Shooting, California Churches’ Lunar New Year Celebrations Turned Solemn. “Blocks away from the Monterey Park and Alhambra crime scenes, some Asian American pastors adjusted sermons and offered prayers to address the tragedy.”

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“The failings to which we are most sensitive in others are likely the same failings to which we are most vulnerable.”

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“Platform relates to the “trellis” work mentioned in Trellis and the Vine—the structure, programs etc. that support the vine work of actual preaching and teaching.”

Sara Kyoungah White: Our Little Loves and the Loves of Our Littles

“However I look at it, my children draw me out and expand my boundaries, opening my eyes to a world full of the surprising love of God, precisely because they are different from me. They show me new ways of being, new ways of creating, new ways of imagining.”

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TGC Podcast: Learn to Suffer from the Chinese Church

During a panel discussion at TGC21, Hannah Nation, Ryan Zhang, and S. E. Wang from China Partnership discuss the experience of the Chinese church and how the American church can learn from its suffering and kingdom mindset.

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Book Reviews: Not a Tame Lion by Terry Glaspey, I Have a Confession by Nathan Eshelman, What is Love? By Kyle Borg, The Sum of Saving Knowledge by Crown & Covenant. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.

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Game 1 : Red Sox 7, Orioles 1 – Nathan Eovaldi tosses 7 solid innings, allowing just a run on 5 hits, walks 1 & strikes out 6 to earn the win, Xander Bogaerts hits a solo shot (#5) & Mitch Moreland adds a 3-run shot (#7) as Boston wins their 2nd in a row. Pat Valaika homers (#3) for the lone Orioles run of the game as the O’s extend their losing streak to 5 in a row. Bal (12-13) Bos (8-18) WP : Eovaldi (2-2) LP : Wojciechowski (1-3) Game 2 : Red Sox 8, Orioles 5 – Xander Bogaerts (#6), J.D. Martinez (#3) & Rafael Devers (#5) all homer against Orioles starter John Means, who lasts only 3 innings in his return to the rotation, giving up 2 of the Boston homeruns. Pat Valaika (#4), Cedric Mullins (#1) & Chance Sisco (#4) all homer for the Orioles, who drop their season high 6th in a row. Bal (12-14) Bos (9-18) WP : Hernandez (1-0 LP : Means (0-2) S : Barnes (1) Game 3 : Orioles 5, Red Sox 4 (10 innings) – Pedro Severino singles home the winning run in the 10th inning to give the O’s the walk off win in extras. Pat Valaika homers (#5) for the third straight game, Anthony Santander homers (#10) & drives in 2 for Baltimore, who snaps a 6 game skid w/ the win. Jackie Bradley Jr homers (#1) for Boston in the loss. Bal (13-14) Bos (9-19) WP : Castro (1-0) LP : Barnes (1-2) Game 4 : Orioles 5, Red Sox 4 – Rio Ruiz goes 2-4 w/ 4 RBI & Thomas Eshelman pitches 4+ shutout innings in relief of Orioles starter Wade LeBlanc, who departs in the 1st inning w/ an injury. Kevin Pillar (#3) & Jackie Bradley Jr (#2) both homer for the Red Sox, who’s late rally falls short. The Orioles use 6 relievers, the Red Sox use 5. Bal (14-14) Bos (9-20) WP : Eshelman (2-0) LP : Godley (0-3) S : Scott (1) The Orioles split a crucial series w/ the Red Sox, they had the day off before starting a 3 game series on the road against Tampa Bay. GO O’S!! #BreakingEven https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVXNqkDwKG_fTJQ0CEnLIzn5FRNViMv3gn-XY0/?igshid=shup0xft0pvr

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by Nathan Eshelman | There’s a certain level of honesty that is needed when we assess where we are as the Great Lakes Gulf Presbytery of the RPCNA. It has been said that in the last several years—a vacuum of leadership has happened among us—and this has caused us to ask who we are as a presbytery. There was a time when Dr. Roy Blackwood was younger and this presbytery was being built...

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by Nathan Eshelman | In 1978, art historian Joanne Snow-Smith quietly began a movement. She argued that a dark and ominous painting of Jesus Christ called Salvator Mundi was a long lost Leonardo Di Vinci. Through the normal media of scholarly debate, provenance building, and good old-fashioned marketing...

#Gentle Reformation #Nathan Eshelman #Salvator Mundi: I Can't Imagine it! #articles #gentlereformation.com

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by Nathan Eshelman | Wonderful things need backdrops to be more gloriously seen. A beautiful glacial lake is improved when a mountainous landscape is behind it. A sunset is made more precious by the clouds that capture...

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by Nathan Eshelman | Among the years of fruitfulness in the ministry of Thomas Manton, an unknown Dutch artist was completing a painting in 1650 that would be titled, “An elderly man with a gilt helmet.” That painting hung in Amsterdam until 1898, then purchased for a German collection in Berlin. For the whole of the nineteenth century and a good part of...

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by Nathan Eshelman | The law of God has great value in the Scriptures and for the Christian life. Thomas Manton would not doubt the value of the law nor its place in the Christian life; he was not a Neonomian...

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by Nathan Eshelman | God is not the author of confusion (I Corinthians 14:33), but of peace, and godliness, and of order. Today the Roman pontiff, speaking on behalf of Jesus Christ and his church declared the pompous words (Daniel 7:8) that same sex couples in union could be blessed. This is an about-face as he said in 2021 that he would not allow for gay unions to be blessed because "God cannot bless sin." Surely now he can, according to the one who shows himself to…

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by Nathan Eshelman

Some of you need to fire your child’s therapist right away. Some of you need to figure out what interactions your school psychologist, counselors, and paraprofessionals are having with your children.

With. Your. Children.

Children are being ruined by therapeutic parenting and our therapeutic culture.

If you are a therapist you may need to be repenting due to causing more harm than good. Therapists and the therapizing of our children may be responsible for a large portion of the immaturity, anxiety, depression, and suicidality of our nation’s youth. We have created a generation of adults in “emotional snow suits” and have children that are afraid to live life at full…

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by Nathan Eshelman | Benjamin Franklin had many acquaintances that were ministers and clergy of various "sects" as he would call them. He was raised as a Presbyterian and even pulled his grandson from a Roman Catholic school in France so that he could attend Geneva Academy in Switzerland that he may be "a Presbyterian" in his thinking.

In 1790, one month before his death at the age of 85, he had a conversation with the president of Yale College, Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles. Stiles was a congregationalist minister in the American Puritan tradition as well…

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by Nathan Eshelman | Jesus said, "Blessed are those that mourn." It is in this gospel mourning God comes to his people. The Spirit gives comfort as we mourn for sin and the effects of sin on a hurting world. We look to the Christ which came down in search of all those who would mourn by faith…

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by Nathan Eshelman | Recently I was asked about the practice of coming to a physical table during the celebration of the Lord's Supper. This practice is one that is very ancient and I would argue ought to be maintained or revived in our churches…