Abe passed me a long article on worship leading by Ruth Dickinson at Christianity magazine on worship. Mostly it is about the American cult of worship leaders – something we a not immune to here but, in my view, to a much lesser extent. However, by way of an antidote Dickinson suggests four things, correct [...]
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Someone mentioned Revelation 5.9 to me recently: And they sang a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them [...] These are some notes from a seminar I led recently on prayer ministry.
God’s view of “dis-ease” We are placed between two conditions of man. There was no dis-ease in the Garden. Although the verdict is open as to whether there was an ecosystem in the same way as we know it, for example the food chain.
Nor with there [...] No sermon notes this week because it was baptisms and therefore a simple outline.What would be on your bucket list? Mine are: Visit India by train The awesome part of the series was the baptism of four very different people who have met Jesus [...] 1 Corinthians 14 34-35 deals with an aspect of the participation of married women in worship. These verses forcefully forbid women to speak in church. If they have questions they are to ask their husbands at home. They appear to directly contradict 1 Corinthians 11:5 where it is clear that women can and do pray and [...] Understanding worship 101 What is worship? –A common expression –Worship (latreia) all the time (Romans 12.1-2) –Worship (proskyneo) when the church gathers (John 4:20ff; Acts 2; 1 Cor 12 11; 14:26)
What it isn’t! –Audience –Acting (Psalm 22:3) But it is associating with heaven’s worship (Rev 4:1-7:17)! Hymns and teaching and revelation and tongues and interpretation (v26-28) Weighing and [...] I’m rather challenged at present by what Bunyan had to say about church. Bunyan spent about a third of his life in prison for his faith. Writing from prison in 1662, he says of prayer and worship: There is no subject of more solemn importance to human happiness than prayer. It is the only medium of intercourse [...] It’s a well know fact that all-age services take me right outside my comfort zone. I led one of Easter Sunday morning which even included communion, and it seems to have been fairly well appreciated. Leave aside the extra work and thought beforehand, which I estimate at about 10 times that of a normal service, and [...] In my previous post about The Shack, I mentioned that Young is on solid if unfamiliar ground here when writes, “Papa speaks: ‘Mackenzie, we have no concept of final authority among us, only unity. We are in a circle of relationship, not a chain of command or ‘great chain of being’ as your ancestors termed [...] |
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