Is God For Us?
“Is God for me?” It’s a question I’ve asked myself countless times in moments of sickness, suffering, and hardship. I easily answer “yes” when all is well. Of course, God is for me. I am healthy. I have a good job, a nice car, a roof over my head, and a wife – […]
Worship Is a Time to Tear Things Up
“Yet even now,” declares Yahweh, ‘Return to Me with all your heart and with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and tear your heart and not your garments’” (Joel 2:13). There is a time to tear things up (Eccles. 3:7). In the early 2000s, I attended a conference with a young man whom I was discipling. During worship, […]
A Living Sacrifice of Worship
When we think of sacrifice today, we may think of the military. The father or mother who goes without to provide for their family. Those who alter their job or living conditions to take care of someone else. The historical meaning of sacrifice is a much different outlook. There are animal sacrifices in […]
Setting the Table for Worship
Many Christians admit to feeling that they are not growing in their faith. They are frequently given to old sins, and in reality, their life doesn’t look much different to that of their unbelieving counterparts. These five biblically prescribed practices, however, can and will change your life, by the grace of God.
Attention Worshippers! Are You Upstaging God?
When God’s grace is bestowed upon a sinner in salvation, the glorious splendor of God is revealed and is known, but maybe not seen by the eye yet known in His great grace and work of forgiveness in salvation.