I’ll fight!
While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is...
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While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is...
In the first family, God was looking for true worshipers. Between Cain and Abel, he found only one. “The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain became...
Things like this shake our faith. But sometimes our faith needs to be shaken to see if it’s real. - Jimmy Tower, pastor, Lifeway Fellowship Church, Killean, Texas HT & photo cred: USA Today
Creation composes a much better song than we ever could and I doubt any of us singers could compare with a choir of angels. But the one thing we can give God that nothing else can is a thankful and fully committed heart. We...
“The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.” – A.W. Tozer. This is quite a challenge – especially as we all prepare to lead worship this Sunday....
Greg Gilbert over at The Gospel Coalition Blog is wondering if the modern praise and worship movement hasn’t had unintended consequences: I wonder if the whole “excellence in praise and worship music” phenomenon we’ve seen over the past few years–for...
In every culture, profession and religion, the professionals have always tried to lockout amateurs. That’s why innovation happens at the fringes. Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church (via Twitter)
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...
What could cell phones possibly have to do with the Incarnation? Both involve the significance of physical, embodied presence before others. The presence of another person before us is a kind of moral claim, asking for the recognition appropriate to...
We have created the impression that worship has to do with sanctuaries, chapels, prayer houses, ecclesiastical orders, and liturgical formats. True worship of God calls not for functional church buildings, music of FM radio quality, or slick church services. Of...