Worshipping When You Don't Feel Like It - IV

          How can you worship when you don’t “feel like it”?  We have suggested in previous posts the following 6 points:

1 – Worship prayerfully

2 – Worship actively

Worshipping When You Don't Feel Like It - III

          How can we worship if we do not, for whatever reason, “feel like it” that week, and if the songs of the day do not speak the words we currently bear in our soul?  Previously, we suggested that we need to “worship…

Worshipping When You Don't Feel Like It - II

          So once again, how might we worship, if we do not, for whatever reason, “feel like it” that week, and if the songs of the day do not speak the words we currently bear in our soul?  Last week, we suggested that…

Worshipping When You Don’t Feel Like It - I

          Several months ago I saw an article written by author Ryanne Molinari entitled “7 Suggestions for When You’re Struggling to Worship Joyfully.”  I found it full of insight and faithful to Scripture.  I have taken her main points and given my input…

The Science and the Art of Change

          Change is hard.  If only it was as easy as a mathematical formula!  But, since change involves people, it is more of an art than a science.  However, there is some wisdom in the following formula that might contribute to moving people…

Trustworthy Sayings - VI

Trustworthy saying #5 – Titus 3:8

The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent…

Trustworthy Sayings - V

Trustworthy saying #4 – 2 Timothy 2:11-13

The saying is trustworthy, for:

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

Trustworthy Sayings - IV

Trustworthy saying #3 – 1 Timothy 4:7b-9

“…train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to…

Trustworthy Sayings - III

Trustworthy saying #2 – 1 Timothy 3:1

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.”

          Isn’t it interesting that our second “trustworthy saying”…

Trustworthy Sayings - II

Trustworthy saying #1 – 1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.”

            This trustworthy saying is both a general and a personal truth.  Generally,…

Trustworthy Sayings - I

            I thought we might begin the blog year with some trustworthy sayings.  To what do I refer?  Paul the apostle, of course!  Five times the inspired missionary-writer says “This is a trustworthy saying!” and then he says it.  Each time the saying or the “word”…

Why the God-Man?

NOTE:  Hey church!  I hope you have a wonderful Christmas eve and day with family and friends this week!  A brother of ours in Christ, Keith Stranglin, published just today an article that I found not only rich in thought but also of rich potential…

About Those Wise Guys

            How about those wise guys?  Umm, men.  The wise men.  How about them?  They enter the story of Jesus in Matthew chapter 2.  Who were they?  They came from the East, probably the land of Persia.  They were pagans. …

A Christmas Poem

A Christmas Poem 

(by Daniel McCoy of Renew.org)

What’s the most wonderful time of the year?
Ask…

On the Problem of Church Titles

As a follow-up to my last post on “Why I Am Not ‘The Pastor’”, I wanted to relay a wonderful portion of writing from Alexander Strauch’s “Biblical Eldership,” page 302-303, footnote #7 to chapter 5 (“Servant Leadership”).  Strauch’s book is a masterful study of what the Bible…