Category Archives: Andrew Blackwood
God’s Favorite Method To Make Christ Known
God makes Himself known today supremely in Christ, that He does so through the Scriptures, and that His favorite method of making known the Christ who speaks in the Scriptures is through preaching.
If You Don’t Worship on Monday, You Won’t Worship on Sunday
Public worship is no acceptable substitute for private devotions, or anything else in the Christian life; but neither is anything else an acceptable substitute for public worship.
Worship Is a Response
Worship is man’s response to God’s revelation of Himself.
Preaching Is Worship
The sermon is a present-day revelation of God’s holy will, leading to the searching of the hearer’s soul, and then to the acceptance of the newly revealed truth as it bears on his life among men. Thus the sermon is an act of worship, an act which means that the light of God is shining out today through the pulpit.
Worship Is Giving, Not Getting
The wrong way to worship is to strive to get; the right way is to wish to give.
Worship That Empowers
The only sort of public worship which will enable us to meet the needs of our day, and under God, to solve its problems, is that which centers in Christ as the Son of God.
Andrew Blackwood, The Fine Art of Public Worship, p. 50
The Pastor and His Hymnal
Every pastor should know his church hymnal better than any other book except the Bible…. As in coming to know the Bible, the obvious way to master the hymnbook is to use it every day, each time with a definite aim.
Andrew Blackwood, The Fine Art of Public Worship, pp. 99-100
Life Is Worship 