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The Glory Due His Name: What God Says about Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

“What did you get out of the service today?” It’s a question that many might ask their children on the way home from church. But a closer study of biblical worship reveals that a better question might be “What did God get out of your worship today?” Many churches provide variety in worship, offering traditional worship at one service and contemporary worship at another. The clear implication is...

can people give God anything, much less glory? The dilemma, of course, is that God already has everything He needs, and we have nothing of value to give. Clearly worship cannot actually contribute anything to God, but it can attribute something to him. Many modern translations clarify the issue by translating the imperative verb with the word ascribe instead of give.5 Worship, then, is the process of declaring, by whatever means God ordains, that the Lord is full of glory. This all seems simple enough,
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