The title to my new book is Understanding Worship: Biblical Foundations for Delighting in and Feasting on God (Zondervan, 340 pages).

This is the fourth book that I refer to as my Understanding series (Understanding Spiritual Gifts, Understanding Spiritual Warfare, and Understanding Prayer preceding it), all of which are available on Amazon and in Christian bookstores.

Here are the Contents of the book. I hope you can see that I tried to address virtually every topic on the subject of worship. If I failed to say anything about your primary concern or if I failed to answer a question about worship that you often ask, I apologize. But my publisher thought a book of 340 pages was already long enough!

I suspect that the two most controversial parts of this book are my description of how charismatics worship God and my critical analysis (and ultimate rejection) of what is known as the Regulative Principle.

Introduction: Worship Is Feasting on God! So Come Hungry!

Part 1: Worship Is Why the World Exists

1. My Journey into the Joy of Worship

2. Do You Know Why You Exist? I Do

Part 2: Scenes of Worship in the Old Testament

3. The What, Who, When, Where, and How of Biblical Worship

Further Reflections on Feasting: I Saw Joni Dance (How a Quadriplegic Worships God)

4. Celebrating the Unsearchable Greatness of the God Who Is Able

5. Sing to Him a New Song!

6. The Life-Transforming, Demon-Defeating, Heart-Healing Power of Praise

7. The Pleasures of Praise

Part 3: Scenes of Worship in the New Testament

8. How to Worship without Insulting God

9. The Freedom of Worship in the New Covenant

10. The Sacraments as Worship: The Lord’s Supper and Baptism

Further Reflections on Feasting: The Extinction of Intinction

Further Reflections on Feasting: The Question of Spontaneous Baptisms

11. Sacrificial Giving Smells Good to God! How We Worship God with Our Money

Further Reflections on Feasting: Charging for Service?

12. Enthroned! Encircled! Extolled! (Revelation 4)

 13. “Weep No More!” (Revelation 5)

 14. Worshiping the God Who Wins (Revelation 11, 15, 19)

Further Reflections on Feasting: Worshiping God for His Wrath

Part 4: How Charismatics Worship

 15. How Charismatics Worship (1): Music, Spontaneity, and the Affections of the Heart

 16. How Charismatics Worship (2): The Spirit’s Power and Presence

 17. How Charismatics Worship (3): Prophetic Worship and Singing in the Spirit

 18. Should We Sing Songs Written by Churches with Questionable Theology?

Conclusion

Appendix A: Affections of the Heart in the Experience of Sarah Edwards

Appendix B: Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

Appendix C: Regulative, Normative, Both, or Neither?