Posts Tagged ‘Worship’
Avoiding the Extremes: Worship in the Cold and Heat
Recent discussions about restricting indoor worship sparked my curiosity. Some places allow limited outdoor gatherings, but these are only effective in moderate weather locations. Some places, like the city where I live, have glorious summers that very rarely suffer through extreme heat. Even in our hottest days, outside worship could be tolerable if we were…
Read MoreEntertained or Edified?
Recently I watched an intriguing YouTube video by bass player and composer Adam Neely called “Learning to Like Contemporary Christian Music (the music I hate).” Adam takes us on a interesting journey as he studies the style and form of some of the big names in modern contemporary worship. I agree with much of what…
Read More“We” or “Me” in Church?
Americans have always placed a premium on individualism. But, in the Coronavirus pandemic, we have carried individualism to a new level. To avoid going out, some people are trying to get “off the grid” by generating their own power, planting their own gardens, or doing anything else imaginable. We see this same problem in our…
Read MoreYou Cannot Worship with Your Church, but Don’t Skip Family Worship!
As you know, we truly are living in unprecedented times for society and for the church. Not since the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 have churches in America cancelled services like they are doing now and never has this happened on such a massive scale. Obedience to government, love for neighbor, and wisdom all say…
Read MoreOur Mighty God
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. Deuteronomy 10:17 As a child in the public school, we used to pray before snack time. God is great, God is good. Let us thank Him for…
Read MoreThe Believer’s Certainty that the Scriptures Are the Final Authority for Belief and Behavior (Part 2)
The Scriptures Convict by Exposing Incorrect Belief Paul’s unique choice of words (ἐλεγμός) which occurs only here in the NT has the sense of “rebuke” (2 Tim 3:16b). In other words, a correct apprehension of Scripture refutes error. Paul expresses the identical concept in 2 Timothy 4:2, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out…
Read MoreOur Incomparable, Sovereign, Holy, and Majestic God
For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods (Psalm 96:4). Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, Who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto Thee (Psalm 71:19)! From the book, Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer indicates that we…
Read MoreCommitted to Lord’s Day Worship
For more than two-thousand years, churches have gathered on Sunday. This happens in Russia and the US, China and Brazil, Israel and Uganda, Iceland and Australia. It happens in cities and farmlands, deserts and jungles, and mountains and valleys. It happens this way all around the world. But why? Why do Christians worship the Lord…
Read MoreA Case for Church Choir
“When she said that to me . . . Well, if there were a fruit basket of the Holy Spirit, let’s just say, ‘I was not in the basket’!” Those words from a good friend in ministry made me laugh out loud because I have been there. You have, too. We all have been there.…
Read MoreRecovering the Lost Art of Worship
The thoughtful Christian is compelled to admit that in our time there is very little true worship of the Lord. We have our so called worship services, but often even in such services, little time is given to worship in the traditional Scriptural sense. Ask the average Christian what worship is, and you will get…
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