Singing God's Praises

Ordination on SermonAudio · Oct 25, 2026 · 44m

Pastor Mark Hogan teaches on congregational singing as a commanded gospel ordinance of Christ's churches, defending it from the Confession of Faith ch. 22, para. 5 and 17th-century Particular Baptists such as Robert Purnell. He grounds it in Old Testament calls to sing (Psalm 96:1-2; 98:4; 67:4; 117:1; Isaiah 35:10; 51:11) and Christ's hymn after the Lord's Supper (Matthew 26:27-30), with the core theology in Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16: singing is Word ministry, mutual teaching and admonition, and both vertical praise and horizontal edification. He affirms inclusive psalmody…