11 Jan 2020
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Part 4 (final): WHAT’S STEWING WITH WORSHIP
"I can eat it by myself Or eat it with my family Eat it with a crowd Or eat it customarily" (Last time we talked about attending a worship event with a "crowd" of people you may not know.) With A Family The Apostle Peter...
8 Jan 2020
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Part 3: WHAT’S STEWING WITH WORSHIP
A Few Required Ingredients Without stepping on anyone’s “culinary” creativity, let me suggest some ingredients necessary to Christian worship. The first is that the worshiper must season their thoughts, songs and prayers with...
5 Jan 2020
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Part 2 – What’s Stewing with Worship
Don’t Stew Over the Stew Just as stew can contain very different ingredients, so words can often contain very different meanings, and worship is just such a word. The second category that got thrown into the “worship” pot has...
2 Jan 2020
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What’s Stewing With Worship! (part 1 of 4)
When I was a boy my mother would cook stew about once a month. Not just any stew; stew that would make a boy leave a water fight on a hot day to come to dinner. I realize that some people use stew to get rid of leftovers, but at my...
5 Aug 2018
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The “Full”-ness of God
He is Awe-ful - so full of awe that our knees buckle at but a glimpse of your personage. Art-ful - so full of art that you burst our ability to fully take you in. Beauty-ful - so full of beauty that Your symmetry, wholeness and...
30 Jul 2018
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Who Likes Discipline?!?!?!
The Spiritual Disciplines . . . are holy habits that help one to develop intimacy with God. Every worship leader should practice some of these disciplines, as YOU CANNOT TAKE OTHERS WHERE YOU YOURSELF HAVE NOT BEEN! –Abstaining...
14 Jun 2018
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Selfie-Worship
Selfie-Worship Here’s a picture of me . . . in front of the Grand Canyon. This is me at the Louvre . . . with daVinci’s “Mona Lisa” over my shoulder. Here I am in South Dakota . . . that’s Mt. Rushmore behind...
24 Apr 2018
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Art is the Grandchild of God – Dante
“Art” said Dante, “is the grandchild of God.” For the Ancients, Art and Beauty were often synonyms for the creative symmetry, aesthetic nuance and the mysterious attractive essence of a thing. I want to share a...
29 Dec 2014
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Don’t Listen . . .
. . . to those who teach on Worship without talking mostly about God, for it is God Who is the source and substance of our worship. It is God Who informs, instructs and invites our worship. He designs and deserves our worship; He enables...
1 May 2009
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OF KISSING & WORSHIPING
Of Kissing & Worshiping We seem to speak of worship like it is its own thing, its own entity, like kissing. For example, I might say that kissing is something I do, something I like to do. It makes me feel good, romantic. It gives...