Created for Family Worship: How?

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Family worship is a foreign idea to many Christians. Yet this simple practice can transform our homes and bless our children. Today, Jason Helopoulos explains how families can form patterns of Bible reading, prayer, and singing together.

Request Created for Worship, the video teaching series from Jason Helopoulos, with your donation of any amount. You'll receive the DVD, plus lifetime digital access to all 11 messages and the study guide: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/4485/offer

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Meet Today's Teacher:

Jason Helopoulos is senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	I remember my son just hearing him pray and saying, oh, God, would you give me more love for you?
0:06.9	That's a good prayer.
0:08.6	I remember my daughter praying right after him.
0:10.8	Oh, God, would you help me to obey you more?
0:13.9	Oh, that's a good prayer.
0:15.7	There are good nights like that.
0:17.6	It's well worth persevering in and keeping after.
0:23.0	Would you practice family worship for the benefit of your soul and for the benefit of your family members or those in your
0:28.4	house and for the good and welfare of the church? Ah, it's a blessing. It's a means of grace.
0:45.8	Despite how foreign the idea of family worship might be for a Christian living in the 21st century, and the obstacles we might face as we try and implement the practice, as
0:52.3	Jason Holopoulos just said, it is a means of grace.
0:56.7	It's not intended to be a means of guilt.
0:59.8	So how do we start this habit?
1:02.8	I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and that will be the question we answer today on renewing your mind.
1:10.0	Reverend Helopoulos is our guest teacher today,
1:12.6	and he has taught this 11 message series on worship,
1:15.6	reminding us that we were created for worship,
1:18.6	and that as Christians, we have been recreated for worship.
1:22.6	We'll send you this series,
1:24.6	taught with a pastor's heart,
1:26.6	plus a physical copy of the study guide
1:29.0	when you donate before midnight tomorrow at Renewing Your Mind.org.
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