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My New Experiences in Worship Using Older Worship Forms

Since Steve Childers moved to Lookout Mountain, he’s been deeply encouraged by the Christ-centered, God-honoring worship at Lookout Presbyterian Church (PCA). These reflections aren’t about formal vs contemporary worship—they’re about how God uses "robust, historic, liturgical, and varied" worship services to help us experience the beauty and depth of our union with Christ in fresh ways.

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Corporate Worship Services: Worship Series Part 6

Our corporate worship should inspire our personal worship and our personal worship should culminate in our corporate worship. Learn practical ways your weekly worship can be more edifying to you and honoring to God in this new episode on worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.

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Wholehearted Worship - Existential Perspective: Worship Series Part 5

Learn how to worship God with your whole being, including your mind, affections, and intentional, physical acts of your body in this new episode on existential perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.

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The Cultural Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 4

Should I lift up my arms in worship? Should I bow down? Learn how to avoid the twin dangers of blindly neglecting the worship practices of the past and rigidly adhering to them in the present in this new episode on cultural perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.

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The Biblical Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 3

How should you respond to church leaders who accuse you of displeasing God if you don’t worship according to their practices, when you can’t see these practices condemned or required in the Bible? Learn how in this new episode on Biblical Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.

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Vertical and Horizontal Worship: Worship Series Part 2

In our last episode, we learned about the broad and narrow focus in biblical worship. In this episode we learn about the vertical and horizontal focus in biblical worship. Our vertical focus is on God and our horizontal focus is on others. Learn more.

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Broad and Narrow Worship: Worship Series Part 1

Learn how to deepen your understanding and experience of true worship in the new Worship Series by Drs John Frame and Steve Childers. In this episode, learn what the Bible teaches about a broad and narrow sense of worship.

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