The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions [Hardcover]

Terry L. Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003

Do you struggle to provide enjoyable, meaningful and spiritual times of family devotions? Do you avoid the whole subject but have the nagging thought that you should be doing something?
Let Terry & Family Worship equip you for leading your family in worship with the help of some key questions: What is family worship? What have other people done? Why Should I do it? How can I start? A Valuable resource which you will not exhaust in years.

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About the Author

Terry Johnson is Senior Pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Christian Focus; Reprinted edition (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857924010
• ISBN-13: 978-1857924015
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teach Them Diligently, November 15, 2007

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Kevin P. Jackson "bibliophile" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions (Hardcover)

The two hardest things about family worship are getting started and getting started. On the one hand I had a desire to lead my family in studying God's Word and helping us all to store it up in our hearts, but it is difficult with busy and erratic schedules to know when to do it. Combine that with the fact that there is very little precedent for actually leading it or knowing how to lead it and you have a recipe for never getting going. I knew that it was something that needed to be done so I set a date when we would get started and then began my hunt for resources that would help me know exactly what I should do in leading this time. I did a bit of research and found this book. After taking a look and reading some reviews I decided to order it, and am I glad that I did.

This book is a great resource for anyone wishing to start family worship or for anyone who is already leading but feels that there could be more to it. The book gives a good introduction to the what and why of family worship (which I, frankly, skimmed since I didn't need any convincing). The author then dives into the meat of the book; how to lead and what this time should consist of. The book includes several hymns and selections from the psalter (sans music, although it does give suggested tunes for all the songs). There are also several other resources including creeds and confession, suggested Bible reading timelines, the Westminster Shorter and Larger Catechisms, articles on prayer and many other great resources for leading worship. I have found this book to be truly indispensable as we have begun this endeavor.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reform Your Family, April 2, 2007

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Deacon "MT" (Canton, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions (Hardcover)

My wife bought me this book, and I couldn't have picked a better book for our entire family. Terry L. Johnson does a wonderful job of giving the case for family worship and then gives practical advice on how to perform it. The most important advice that he gives is, "Just do it." He includes numerous resources in planning daily worship times with your family from the "Call to Worship" to the "Benediction." It includes hymns and the complete psalter, but if you do not know music (like my wife and me), then you might want to buy a CD that has the music. It also includes a Bible Reading Record and Memorization helps along with the Shorter Catechism and the Apostle's and Niceane Creeds for you and your children to memorize.

Family worship was very new to us, especially with very small children. We were struggling to find a resource that could help us in figuring out if we were "doing it right." The one thing that I realized most of all that doing it is much better than waiting to do it right. However, having this resource helps those of us that hate to step out without the safety net.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good resource, September 20, 2007

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SGT Dabney "SGT Dabney" (Afghanistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Family Worship Book: A Resource Book for Family Devotions (Hardcover)

If you are a Christian and you have children, you should be doing daily family devotions. If you are a Christian father, you should be leading your family in daily worship. However, many people don't know how to begin to do it. We bought this book to help us and it has been very helpful. We practice family worship every night of the week and this resource has been invaluable in keeping our children involved and interested. The results we have seen are awesome. Our girls are learning the Bible, Christian doctrine, the creeds, and are practicing to sit through Church and participate in the service instead of squirming all over because they are bored. Plus, they are learning the daily pattern of walking with Christ, which is more valuable than anything you could give your children. I highly recommend this to Christian parents. Start worshipping together as a family, this book can help you get started.