Thread: 2008: A Year for Family Worship

2008: A Year for Family Worship -- Rick Phillips

By God's grace, we have now been doing family worship every night from 7-8 for a couple of years. It has become our family's favorite time of the day and has helped me as I lead my family as a shepherd. I would highly encourage this discipline and practice.

Just this week I listened to a reading of JH Merle D'Aubigne's Family Worship. To say I was stunned is an understatement. It cut me to shreds. I came home and found the text and am in the process of making audio CD's to distribute to as many men who are willing to put their hand out to take it.

We are soon to have our 4th grandson. I could literally beg their father to establish this practice. It is THE foundational element missing from the homes of almost everyone I know, including my own. Isn't that some sad commentary?

If you haven't already heard this, it is available on SermonAudio.

Please pray for me in my active repentance and for the results that will certainly follow!

Here are some family worship resources that may be of interest:

Church of Scotland, Directory for Family Worship
J.H. Merle D’Aubigne, Family Worship
Joel Beeke, Family Worship
F. Nigel Lee, Daily Family Worship
Kerry Ptacek, Family Worship: Biblical Basis, Historical Reality, Current Need
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Bible Reading Plan
Articles on Family Worship from the Free Grace Broadcaster of Mt. Zion Bible Church, Summer 2004

hehe. I read Rick Phillips and thought Rick Warren, I was suprised to see a good teaching from him, but then I realized "nope its not Rick Warren".

Here is a direct link to the Sermon Audio reading of the Essay on family worship by J.H. Merle D’Aubigne. Family Worship

I can second the recommendation. A wonderful little essay to encourage parents to guide their children in the Christian life.

J.W. Alexander, Thoughts on Family Worship

Family Worship: A Series of Prayers, with Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Passages of Sacred Scripture For Every Morning and Evening Throughout the Year; Adapted to Services of Domestic Worship by 180 clergymen of the Church of Scotland (HT: Todd Pedlar)

John L. Girardeau, A Sermon on Family Religion

Family Worship and Unattentive Children