Topic: worship God

10:1-39- God is calling us to commit our lives to Him. At the heart of our commitment to the Lord, there must be worship: ‘We will not neglect the House of our God’ (39).

Berkouwer and Calvin Since Berkouwer fully intends to stand in in the line of the Reformation, it hardly needs to be said that the influence of John Calvin looms large in his...

On reading the book of Leviticus, we are struck by the strangeness of it all. It all seems so different from anything we have ever known.

John 2:13-25 With a view to emphasizing what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us, we begin with the conversation which took place after the cleansing of the temple (John...

Awaiting Christ’s Return , let us worship God and walk in His ways. God calls us to worship Him - ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord…’- and walk in His ways -...

1:1-2:18- ‘You see the trouble we are in’ - How do you react when the going gets tough? Do you collapse in despair and succeed only in making your troubles seem even bigger than...

Chapter 12 This is a divine Story, carried forward by God's grace and power. God's very great promises (1-3) find their ultimate fulfilment in the coming of God's eternal...

30:1-12- ‘I will exalt You, O Lord’ (1). God is not exalted because we exalt Him. We exalt Him because He is exalted: ‘He is exalted, for ever exalted, and I will praise His...

Introducing Berkouwer's Theology 'Dilemmas always are a source of polarization. We quickly move over to simplistic either-or's ... in which the fulness of truth is torn apart.

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Genesis 45:1-15; Psalm 133 or Isaiah 56:1, 6-8; Psalm 67; Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 We gather together to confess...

Loved with Everlasting Love In his book, Divine Election, Berkouwer places great emphasis on the love of God as the eternal source of salvation.

40:1-49- God was revealing Himself to Ezekiel. ‘The hand of the Lord was upon’ him. He received ‘visions of God’ (1-2).

* Work for God. ‘“Why is everyone saying it is not the right time for rebuilding My Temple?” asks the Lord’.

Chapter 1 'Every man able to go forth to war': this is the key phrase in verses 1-46. God is looking for 'soldiers' - soldiers of Christ!

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Exodus 14:19-31; Psalm 114 (or Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21) or Genesis 50:15-21; Psalm 103: (1-7), 8-13; Romans 14:1-12; Matthew 18:21-35 In the...

Philosophical theology is chiefly concerned with the abstract question of the existence of God. Berkouwer, however, insists that the question of God should be asked religiously:...