Tomorrow, on the first Sunday of 2018, one of our songs will be a setting of Psalm 1. John Piper on God’s shaping the hearts of his people through his provision of the Psalms. Plant Your Heart Here In great mercy and wisdom, God has chosen to give us the Psalms. He has put them …
Eric Davis offers a few reasons why trying to do church away from church isn’t really church. Here’s one of his thoughts: Worship of God is not a self-determined endeavor. Much of the Bible begins with God laying out what it means, and does not mean, to worship him. One take-away from Exodus and Leviticus …
Watch someone with a completely scripted contemporary order of service maintain they’re non-liturgical. Stephen McAlpine bounces off the observation that all churches have a liturgy of some sort or another, the issue is whether it conveys the reality of the Kingdom of God or is shaped as a pastiche that reflects the Kingdom of the …
Some thoughts on a decline in deep and focussed prayer as part of corporate worship from an article by Jesse Johnson at the Cripplegate blog. Terry Johnson—who wrote When Grace Comes Alive and When Grace Comes Home (two books about theological prayers), points out that through church history, pastoral prayers have been a mark of …
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