Perhaps there’s a reciprocal relationship among all these processes. As we worship God with our adoration and appreciation, praise and prayer, might those other aspects of worship highlighted by Bishop Temple–submission, faith, a renewed mind, love-in-action, and selflessness–be the result?
There were some action songs to introduce the activity after the prayer. The first speaker was Ptr Bernard, a former criminal who suffered four years in prison. He shared about the Gospel and led the students in a prayer of acceptance. Most of the students were attentive and receptive. After...
He often taught Elisabeth from the Bible and they bookended their days with prayer and Scripture. She shares, “Every night and morning we prayed, beginning with praising God and thanking Him, praying for our families back home, and asking for safety in the long, uncertain days that lay ahe...
It is possible to perform acts of worship (such as prayer, Bible reading, giving offerings, singing) in an outward and formal way -- just going through the motions. Indeed, that is how many worship. But merely outward worship is satisfying to neither God nor to us. Jesus quoted the Prop...
you will find a decorative case called amezuzah.Inside this case is a piece of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which is comprised of what we, as Christian believers, know as the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. Those verses include the Jewish prayer calledShem...
As I first approached the term I was reading a book on theology calledReconsidering Key Biblical Ideas. I was finding that the authors were mentioning a number of points I had been coming across. I always like it when someone endorses my thinking. After investigating some key points they dro...
Having said this, however, I still believe it is essential both for worship leaders and also for worshipers to understand the essential quality of worship as prayer. At the core, worship is communication with God. In the context of a worship service we might call each other to worship, or...
With a mother’s loving hand she smoothed the little bed. She sat down by my side, and joined me in singing the last hymn we sang together before we separated. We knelt down, and she prayed — the last mother’s prayer I was to hear before I went to China. Then the notice was ...
attached to the mother of our Lord. Mary was a godly young woman but she was not and is not a queen or any more a saint that you or me if we belong to Christ. God said, “have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20.3). That would include the worship of or prayer to saints and ...
The Word should also fill our prayers. The greatest prayers of the church are rich in the language of the Bible itself, offering God’s Word back to him in prayer. The words of the Bible should inform our prayers with the truth of God, the promises of God, and the blessings of God ...