Entries Tagged as ‘Church Life’

September 11, 2008

A Checklist for Church Music!

Thanks Michael for sharing this article by Nathan Busenitz.  You may read the article along with any accompanying comments here.
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I would encourage reading the following…some of these questions leave a lot unanswered on the table from many various artists and forms of “worship”.
In Christ,
Michael
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I believe Nathan who serves as personal assistant to John MacArthur is [...]

August 12, 2008

Addendum to – A Brief Apology!

Rain can be very refreshing when a storm comes through the area especially in areas where the land is parched. The smell of the rain and all associated with it can be quite pleasant. However, on the other extreme, there are times when storms bring an overabundance of rain. At those times, floodwaters arise and [...]

August 11, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Conclusion

Remembering that this series was on worship, there are a few questions that beg to be asked. If we are commanded to worship and the only way we can be in obedience to Christ is by remaining in control or continuing to bring into control our every thought –
1. Why do our churches focus [...]

August 8, 2008

The Definition of Worship

I believe it is prudent to consider a few suitable definitions of the word worship. I believe this is vitally important because too often we can throw words around (even theological ones) without stopping to define exactly to what we are referring, and in so doing, we quickly lose much of our audience or our [...]

August 7, 2008

The Meaning of Revival video

This is a very sobering video!  Places like Lakeland, Toronto, and Brownsville are NO revivals such as the Bible describes.  Watch this video and let us cry out to our God for mercy that He would show such a revival to us in our personal lives and in our churches!

Heavenly Father, [...]

July 22, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Pt. 9

We concluded Part 8 by saying, “More importantly, they (church members) know that what is on the inside and what they dwell on in the dark recesses of their minds would damn them to a Christ-less eternity if it wasn’t for the mercy and grace of God.”

By way of example, some of these [...]

July 14, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Part 7

There are some who say that if you put a frog into a pan of boiling water, it will hop right out fully aware of the danger. However, if you drop the frog into a pan of cold water and ever so slowly increase the temperature a few degrees at a time, the frog [...]

July 7, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Part 6

Now that we are aware of the ½ pills of poison we have all been swallowing, how can we begin to remedy the problem? In Part 4, we dealt with 1 Corinthians 10:31 and learned that in ALL things we are to do everything to the glory of God.

Again, this means that every day is [...]

July 2, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Part 5

Before we continue with the next verse, I want to continue with a simple illustration that I heard recently from Josh Harris, who is the author of the book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.” In addition to his work as an author, he is one of the pastors of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Imagine a [...]

June 30, 2008

Which God Do You Worship?? – Part 4

Let’s make this very practical now. We have shown how many worship the wrong god every day! Many worship gods of their own making and sadly this includes many who claim to be true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Is it possible to be free from the circle of self-centered worship found in our [...]