Posts with the tag “worship”

The time is now, we must stop reducing the church to a recruitment agency, and instead embrace the full, biblical identity: The church exists for the glory of God, the worship of Christ, the holiness of His people, and the proclamation of His gospel.  Read More

Worship is not cozy emotion because it confronts majesty and shatters the self. Modern worship sings as if God were boyfriend, therapist, or background mood. Consuming fire domesticated to candlelight glow. The sanctuary a stage. The priesthood a performance. The offering an applause. But Scripture’s worship is unchanged. It demands reverence, awe, purity, truth, obedience.  Read More

Dear reader, the essence of worship lies not in what we receive but in what we offer. It is in the lifting of our gaze from our own concerns to the unchanging greatness of God that we find our lives transformed. The very act of beholding His glory reshapes us, calling us to a higher way of living, one that reflects His holiness and love.  Read More

As we worship, may our hearts and minds ascend beyond ourselves to the infinite, glorious Being who is the ultimate focus and audience of genuine adoration. “Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness” (Psalm 29:2, ESV).  Read More