{"id":854,"date":"2018-02-09T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2018-03-16T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:21:13","slug":"ctpress-february-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2018\/02\/09\/ctpress-february-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"CTPress February 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>To God be the glory, great things he has done&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Glory to God, whose goodness shines on me&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>All glory, laud and honor&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are but a few of the opening lines of songs in our hymnal. They speak of the Christian\u2019s chief duty \u2013 to glorify God. Glorifying God is an important part of who we are as God\u2019s children. It is so central to our worship, that even our hymnal hints at this practice in its title, Glory to God.<\/p>\n<p>Our most celebrated confession, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/resource\/book-confessions\/\">Westminster Confession<\/a>, begins with this doctrine, succinctly asked in answered in the shorter catechism:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What is the chief end of all people? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To glorify God and enjoy God forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To glorify someone or something, according to Merriam-Webster, is to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise or admiration; to elevate to celestial glory. In other words, the work of Christian is, to give honor and worship to Jesus Christ in such a way, that he is above everyone and everything else in our lives. It is appropriate, it is our work, and it is the perfect response to all<br \/>\nthat God has done for us.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, I am looking forward to wrapping up my five-week study of the five solae of the Reformation. This Sunday we will consider Soli Deo Gloria, to God alone be the glory. I am looking forward to sharing how this \u201csola\u201d is the most important of the five doctrines, for it gives context and explanation to the other four.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever wondered why the word \u201cglory\u201d appears so frequently in our \u201cChristianese,\u201d if you wonder why there are endless calls to raise God up, then you will certainly want to be present to worship (and glorify God) on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>To God be the glory,<\/p>\n<p>Pastor John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent begins this coming Ash Wednesday &#8211; February 14th, 2018.<br \/>\nThis Sunday, I am looking forward to wrapping up my five-week study of the five solae of the Reformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2018\/02\/09\/ctpress-february-9-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Hymnal-0664503136.jpg?fit=432%2C648&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}