A few days ago some friends shared with us what their pastor preached Sunday morning. The message overall was about worship and how too many of us define the term by 15 – 20 minutes of singing before someone preaches in a church service. Such a deficient understanding of worship has dire ramifications in the [...]
Worship
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing the first several verses of Matthew 5 that I recently shared with some amazing students at youth camp. At the heart of our chapel messages, we explored the call for and cost of being a follower of Jesus. Beyond putting our hope in a civic religion to [...]
I came across a post earlier this morning regarding the subject of praise. It presented praise as simply a way of routing the enemy, encouraging Christians to “get their praise on” in order to obtain victory over personal struggles, entrapment, financial hardships, etc. I wonder, however, if such terminology lends itself to a skewed view [...]
