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Household Worship Guide on Sound the Alarm! and Before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord from Joel 2

October 15, 2025

Does God bring such judgments today? We can’t know for certain, but often in times of so-called natural disasters (drought, storms, swarms, epidemics, etc) there has been a call to prayer—a call to seek God’s favor and his mercy. Good idea. Sound the alarm! And pray.

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Household Worship Guide on "On the Road to Somewhere" and "Your God will be my God" from Ruth 1

October 08, 2025

Return, in the Bible, can just mean going back to a place you once were. It also means, in several places, to repent—to change your mind. Ruth has repented and believed in the covenant Yahweh. Naomi is returning, but with little faith in the LORD.

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Household Worship Guide on God's People - Or Not and The Word of the Lord from Hosea 1

October 01, 2025

Be humbled by God’s saving mercy in Jesus, knowing you deserve no mercy. Realizing you have no right in yourself to claim to be God’s people, yet understanding grace – that God has, in Jesus, renamed you ruhamah - mercy. God has renamed you ammi – mine.

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Household Worship Guide on I See Four! and Malicious Accusations from Daniel 3

September 24, 2025

God’s people will face malicious accusations--intended for your destruction. Trust Jesus that you are blessed if that happens. Know that God will deliver you-in this life or in the life to come.

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Household Worship Guide on "Can these Bones Live?" and "One Stick" from Ezekiel 37

September 11, 2025

At an early hour in the morning the family was assembled, when a portion of Scripture was read from the Old Testament, which was followed by a hymn and a prayer, in which thanks were offered up to the Almighty for preserving them… and for his goodness… and, at the same time, his grace was implored…

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Household Worship Guide on "The Desperate Cry of a Wounded Soul" from Lamentations 3

August 27, 2025

Overall, I think this is a great idea and you've provided a very motivating and practical guide, easy for pastors to copy and paste or to stir up their minds to apply a modified version to their own ministries and congregations. Thanks!

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Household Worship guide from Jeremiah 33 about the Righteous Branch Who Restores

August 20, 2025

As we pray for effective hearing of the word preached, let’s prepare for it as well in our daily household worship. That is, to enhance the hearing of the Word preached by reviewing the Word that has been preached and previewing the Word that will be preached is one of the aims of Worship Connected.

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Household Worship Guide Our Sin on Him Household Worship guide from Isaiah 53

July 23, 2025

What pastor wouldn’t want his congregation focusing all week long on taking in and living out his preaching because their daily family or household worship is helpfully connected to the weekly corporate worship and is enhancing how they remember and observe the Sabbath?

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Household Worship Guide on My Beloved is Mine and I am His from Song of Solomon

July 16, 2025

Is Worship Connected (or something similar) needed? Since I am doing it every week, at least from my perspective, it is needed.

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Household Worship Guide on Life under the Sun Household Worship Guide from Ecclesiastes

July 09, 2025

There need be no fireworks or pizzazz to keep the kids interested. There needs to be only a father with a heart-love for God–who desires to see that love appropriated by his children. Read, pray, repeat.

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Household Worship Guide on Start Being Wise from Proverbs 1

July 02, 2025

Under normal circumstances, typical churchgoers might have 5-6 inputs in their week, all from different portions of God’s Word. ... could there be a way to tie some of these together?

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Household Worship Guide for Psalm 1-2

June 11, 2025

God gave me examples of fathers leading their families in family worship—including my own father early in my life. I remember having to stand up during prayer time in our family worship so that I didn’t fall asleep. If this guide is useful to Jesus’s church, then to God alone be the glory.

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Household Worship Guide on Knowing that My Redeemer Lives and True Friends from Job 19

June 05, 2025

The cheerful supper done, with serious face, They, round the fire, form a circle wide; The sire turns over, with patriarchal grace, The big hall-Bible, once his father's pride. … He selects a portion with judicious care, And ‘Let us worship God!’ he says, with solemn air

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Household Worship Guide on The Invisible God at Work and Finding Favor from Esther 6-7

May 29, 2025

Obviously if this is a household worship guide for your congregation, then you must keep your congregation in mind as you prepare. If you have small children in your congregation, then I suggest you prepare the weekly material with at least an aim toward the hearts of these little ones.

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Household Worship Guide on Jesus in all the Scriptures from Luke 24

May 21, 2025

Ironically, as I comment on "doing" Sabbath, I didn't until part-way into this series have a Lord's Day guide for my weekly household worship guide (more in Thoughts for Pastors).

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Worship Connected Family Worship Guide Nehemiah 8

May 15, 2025

We are considering Bring the Book and The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength in Nehemiah 8

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Household Worship Guide on God's Anointed and God Stirring Hearts from Ezra 1

May 08, 2025

Friday’s here. Jump and cheer. Shabbat is coming. … Hurray! Shabbat is here! So begins the children’s book, Shabbat is Coming! Do we have that attitude about Sunday, the Lord’s Day? It’s Thursday, Sunday’s coming!

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Household Worship Guide on God's Mercy in His Wrath and How the World Hates the House of God from 2 Chronicles 36

May 01, 2025

A key aim of this Worship Connected Household Worship Guide is preparation. How much better prepared would one be to hear and respond to the Word preached than to have reviewed the text to be preached and to have considered some of the areas to be addressed for three days prior to the preaching?

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Household Worship Guide on David's desire to build God's house and God's response from 2 Samuel 7

April 23, 2025

Fathers have over 6,500 opportunities to call their children, in their first 18 years, to come, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord (Psalm 34:11).

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Household Worship Guide on Killing Giants and Off with its head! from 1 Samuel 17

April 16, 2025

I'm convinced that a pastor can find it doable to add the weekly preparation of Worship Connected for the congregation, alongside the preparation for his preaching plan.

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Household Worship Guide on Written in God's Book and Sons of Adam from 1 Chronicles 1

April 09, 2025

I love how it keeps Sunday’s message alive all week. Focusing on what was preached and what will be preached assists me in keeping the message active in my daily life.

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Worship Connected Family Worship Guide 2 Kings 4

April 02, 2025

If you find it useful to use these in your household/family worship, consider asking your pastor to speak to me about him developing something similar in your congregation.

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Worship Connected Family Worship Guide 1 Kings 8

March 26, 2025

We are considering Solomon's dedication of The House for the Lord's Name in 1 Kings 8.