Devotional / Family Worship; December 22, 2025

What is family worship? (Click the arrow to the left)

As Christians, particularly Christian men, we are responsible to lead our households with strength and resolve in the ways of Christ. Leading our families in devotions and family worship is one way to lead our families, raising our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Jesus Christ (cf. Deuteronomy 6:7; Ephesians 6:4).

In my house, we do morning and evenings. In the morning after we eat breakfast together, we all have our quiet times. We read our Bibles seperately and journal what we see. In the evenings before bed, we talk about what we saw in our morning Bible reading, I share my insight from my own devotional time, we ask questions from the New City Catechism, we sing a couple worship songs together, and then we pray as a family. Family worship doesn’t have to look like this. It may look different for every household, but I want to invite you to join me in leading our families well. Every weekday on this blog, I want to provide a guide for fathers to lead their families in some form of family worship. If your household doesn’t have a father, I believe the responsibility falls to the mother. Design a routine that works for your family, but be intentional about leading in the only way that matters instead of getting too caught up with the affairs of this world. Every Christian man is the pastor of his home. I believe the most important thing we can do for our children is (1) lead them in the home and (2) be faithful to the church as a family. As the family goes, so goes the nation. Our job as pastors to our family matters.

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Isaiah 53:7-10

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, 

Yet He did not open His mouth; 

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, 

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, 

So He did not open His mouth. 

8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; 

And as for His generation, who considered 

That He was cut off out of the land of the living 

For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? 

9 His grave was assigned with wicked men, 

Yet He was with a rich man in His death, 

Because He had done no violence, 

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. 

10 But the Lord was pleased 

To crush Him, ^bputting Him to grief; 

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, 

He will see His offspring, 

He will prolong His days, 

And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

Isaiah continued in Chapter 53. God’s servant, yet to come though already rejected by Israel and Judah, In Isaiah 53, the prophet continues to describe God’s true servant, Jesus. Jesus would accomplish God’s work on the earth by being made a guilt offering. He would go willingly to be sacrificed as a guilt offering. Isaiah is clear, here. This servant would be killed in some way by Isaiah’s direct audience—Israel or the Jews. He would be killed to atone for their sin. He would be buried by a rich man, and His grave would be with the wicked. Because of His death, many people would come to follow Him forever.

Things have transpired this way exactly. 700 years before Jesus was born, people were told exactly what kind of death Jesus would die, by whose hand, and the aftermath. Christmas is about the birth not merely of the Lion of Judah but, also, the Lamb of God without blemish and led to slaughter according to God’s good will.

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Today’s question from the New City Catechism:

Q- What is baptism?

A- Baptism is the washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:19 says,

19 “^aGo therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 

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