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“Engaging with God, A Biblical Theology of Worship” by David Peterson
Peterson, David. Engaging with God, A Biblical Theology of Worship. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1992. Engaging with God a Biblical Theology of Worship is a helpful outline of how local churches ought to think about what “worship” is. If churches desire to order their life together according to Scripture this is a great aid. It’s divided into ten chapters moving through the main themes of the Old and New Testaments in a way that is relevant to a church’s assembly. If churches are not building their…
Genesis 29 – Jacob Marries Leah & Rachel, Jacob’s Children
Jacob met Rachel at a well near Haran. Rachel was a shepherdess and was watering her sheep. He saw her, came near rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban (his mother’s brother). He kissed Rachel and wept aloud. Jacob told her he was her father’s kinsman – Rebekah’s son – she ran to tell her dad. Laban ran to meet him and embrace him and kissed him and brought him to his house. He…
Genesis 28 – The Covenant Reaffirmed with Jacob, Stairway to Heaven Dream
Isaac summoned Jacob and told him not to take a Canaanite wife, but to get one from the house of Rebekah’s maternal grandfather, a daughter of Laban. Then he prayed for him, “May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples. May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave…