Christ-centered worship is not just talking or singing about Jesus a lot. Christ-centered worship reflects the contours of the gospel. In the individual life of a believer, the gospel progresses through recognition of the greatness and goodness of God, the...
Moving from adoration to compassion in worship is a stretch for many of us. But the Scriptures tell us that if we love God, then we’ll obey God. If we really adore the beautiful things in God’s character, then we...
We all love “worship experiences” with God. Experiences aren’t evil. But the concept of worship as an “experience” is fairly foreign to Scripture. I say “fairly” because there are times when worshipping God was definitely an experience! (2 Chron. 5:11-14;Acts...
Great post here by Pastor Rick Duncan of Cuyahoga Valley Church in Cleveland which in part says: We know that we are not all we should be, but we read our Bibles. At least some. We pray. At least a...
True worship of God calls for greater involvement in issues of poverty and hunger, of righteousness and justice, of love and compassion, of oppression and enslavement. It is then that the world will begin to see who (and what) the...
When have you heard Moses, the Apostle John, and John Calvin quoted favorably on a national news broadcast? Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle does so on ABC’s Nightline, during a remarkable story on idolatry. Click here to...
Sovereign Grace Ministries has done the church universal a great favor and posted all of the video and audio from the 2009 WorshipGod conference on-line free of charge and obligation. John Piper is pastor of Bethlehem Baptist in Minneapolis and...
The poor have the gospel preached unto them (Matthew 11:5, KJV) …it is one delightful mark of Christ’s dispensation, that he aims first at the poor. It was wise in him to do so. If we would fire a building,...
In too many churches, I think, worship is just the prelude to the sermon…the implication being that we’ll get past all the preliminaries and we’ll get to the meat of the service, which is the sermon. What I want people...
Mike Harland of Lifeway Resources, in this presentation with Ed Stetzer, offers this good, concise definition: Worship is our response to Who God is and what He’s done. The whole video – Worship: Reverence vs. Relevance – is a bit...