In the Psalms, past, present, and future are brought together to witness Yahweh’s presence and power to the world. The great themes of the history of Israel, creation, the kingship of Yahweh, the promise of the land, and the future promise of salvation are attested in the Psalms. All these themes are bound together by the Israelite notion of “remembrance” by which the past is made to come to life in the present and to anticipate the future (see B. S. Childs, Memory and Tradition in Israel [SBT, 1/37; 1962]).

“Worship” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, 1121.

The apostle Paul insisted on the need of dedication of one’s whole life, which includes both the inward motivational aspect and the outward expression of cultic devotion (Rom. 12:1f). True service must include both.

“Worship” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, 1118.

In the context of the OT and NT worship refers specifically to worship of the divine. Worship is seen as reverent devotion and service to God motivated by God’s saving acts in history.

“Worship” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, 1118.

Worship as traced in both the OT and NT originates in salvation-history . . . worship begins with God. God the creator, rescuer, and the redeemer initiates our human approach to Him. The remembered events of the Exodus, the Passover, the crucifixion, and the Resurrection evoke a response from God’s people. The response is worship.

“Worship” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, 1117.

Even money, “dedicated” to the Lord becomes an important factor in Christ’s development of His spiritual kingdom. Anything which can, or can be made to have, a spiritual purpose can be seen to be part of Christ’s spiritual Kingdom. When Christ said, “My kingdom is not of this world“, He had no more thought of excluding physical things and political and social-family relationships than when He said to His disciples “ye are not of this world” (the Greek phrase is identical).

Roy Blackwood, The King and His Kingdom, 10.

Few would go so far as to assert that correct views on Church Government are essential to salvation, and yet it is a subject whose importance it were folly to attempt to depreciate.

The Apostolic Church: Which Is It? by Thomas Witherow in Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government, 37.

Every Divine truth is important, though it may be that all Divine truths are not of equal importance. The simplest statement of the Bible is a matter of more concern to an immortal being than the most sublime sentiment of mere human genius. . . The faith of a Christian should strive to reach and grasp everything that God has honored with a place in that Word, the design of which is to be a light to our feet as we thread our way through this dark world. Besides, this, unlike every other book, is not doomed to perish. Heaven and earth may pass away, but the words of Christ shall not pass away. The seal of eternity is stamped on every verse of the Bible. This fact is enough of itself to make every line of it important.

The Apostolic Church: Which Is It? by Thomas Witherow in Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government, 37.

The Natives [the New Hebrides], destitute of the knowledge of the true God, are ceaselessly groping after Him, and not being able to live without some sort of God, they have made idols of almost everything: trees and groves, rocks and stones, springs and streams, insects and beasts, men and departed spirits, relics such as hair and finger nails, the heavenly bodies and the volcanoes; in fact, every being and every thing within the range of vision or of knowledge has been appeal to by them as GOd, — clearly proving that the instincts of Humanity, however degraded, prompt man to worship and lean upon some Being or Power outside himself, and greater than himself, in whom he lives and moves and has his being, and without the knowledge of whom his soul cannot find its true rest or its eternal life.

John G. Paton, The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 73.

Q. How are we to give our wealth to the Lord? — A. By setting apart sufficient time for his worship of our laboring days; and giving of our substance to support ministers, teachers, and the poor, 1 Cor. 9:14.

Q. How is this a mean of promoting our wealth? — A. As what is thus given from love to the Lord, is lent to him, and he will repay it with usury, Prov. 19:17.

Q. How doth the Lord repay what is thus lent to him? — A. By succeeding and directing our endeavors to gain more; and wonderfully providing for us or our posterity, when reduced to straits, Hag. 2:19, Ps. 37:25-26.

John Brown of Haddington, Questions and Answers on the Shorter Catechism, 255-256.

Moreover . . . the essence of God, as it is in itself, is imperceptible, yet notwithstanding, so that God might accommodate himself as best as can be done to the weakness of our mind, that is, so that we might not perceive absolutely nothing about his essence, he willed to designate it by such a name that he might most suitably convey it.

Petrus van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology, Volume 2: Faith in the Triune God