Personal Worship (Page 21)

Hey Church! This weekend I want to encourage you to bring your authentic self to God in worship. It is all too easy for us to “play church” on Sundays in a way that doesn’t result in a genuine encounter with the Holy Spirit. We don’t do this on purpose, of course. At some point along the way, we believed the lie that church is a place that requires…

Hey Church! This weekend, as you prepare your hearts and minds for Sunday morning, I want to encourage you to set aside a pocket of time to meditate on the lyrics copied below. Watch the videos, learn the melodies (extra credit if you learn the harmonies), and read through the words we will be singing together in church. What scriptures come to mind as you listen and…

Hey Church! One of the key passages in our personal worship this week has been John 4, where Jesus explained to a Samaritan woman that “true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.” These words are often quoted but have you ever really thought about what “in spirit and truth” means?  John 4:19-24The woman said to him, “Sir, I…

Hey Church! In addition to wrapping up our series on the book of Isaiah, we also plan to observe a time of prayer for the persecuted Church this Sunday. It may surprise you to learn that the persecution of our spiritual family is one of the biggest human rights crises of our time. The 2021 World Watch list reports the following statistics.* In just the last year……

Hey Church! We will have the opportunity to receive a fresh grace from God through communion this Sunday. Think about it: we will get to hear, see, smell, taste, and touch the holy Word of God this weekend. In an age where information has been so severely cheapened by the absurd number of options that are immediately available to us, it is easy to take for granted this…