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Worship: The Valley of Vision Balanced Worship: In Spirit, In Truth

Worship: The Valley of Vision

I often feel in our contemporary church culture we are narcissistic toward the contributions of past generations often discarding any contribution that they have had in the building of Christ’s church.  Today’s worship thought comes from a collection of Puritan prayers and devotions called The Valley of  Vision.  You will see their passion and sense of [...]

Balanced Worship: In Spirit, In Truth

Probably the most profound passage on worship can be found in John 4:23-24 as Jesus said to the Samaritan woman: “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and [...]

Sunday Recap: 5.5.13

recap-firstframeThis is our setlist of our April 28 gathering at Grace Church.  You can find links to the set lists of the church I serve and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com.  This week, we had a guest speaker who spoke from 2 Corinthians 5:12-18.

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Odds & Ends (5.3.13)

odds_and_ends4Here are a few posts that caught my attention this week:

 

How Older Members Brighten the Future of the ChurchThabiti Anyabwile is spot on in the post over at the Gospel Coalition in his observation of what I call “generational segregation” within the church.   Read More…

Sunday Recap: 4.28.13

recap-firstframeThis is our setlist of our April 28 gathering at Grace Church.  You can find links to the set lists of the church I serve and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com.  This week, we continued our message series in Galatians called “Grace to You.” Read More…

But God, being rich in mercy…

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“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved” (Ephesians 2:4-5)

As Christians, the most terrifying thought that could occupy our minds is that we were once children of God’s wrath. (For the unbeliever, this is a reality.)  We were rebellious, haters of God, defiant of His holiness and deserving of eternal damnation.  Because of our sinful state, there was absolutely nothing about our nature that could reverse that course. There was nothing that we could do to satisfy sin’s penalty.  Nothing. We were on the road to hell. Read More…

Sunday Recap: 3.17.13

recap-firstframeHere is our setlist of our March 17 gathering at Grace Church. You can find links to the set lists of the church I serve and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com.  We continued our message series in Galatians called “Grace to You.”

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