True worship?
Lights… Camera… Action…
I remember being caught in the trap of thinking worship was a 45 minute light and sound show.
Now…I could probably use a swing back in that direction. I humbly confess I may be a little out of balance.
My current thought bubble… “Corporate ‘worship’ (aka singing worship songs) is far from worship.”  The truth in that statement is that corporate worship is not worship in it’s fullness.  The lie is that it isn’t worship at all.
With that said, here is a list of what God says about true …

“If you werent afraid of death, or failure, or if you weren’t afraid of rejection, if you were not afraid of humiliation, if you were not afraid of what other people thought about you, if you were not afraid of anything, what would you be doing? What would you do with your life?” – Erwin Mcmanus
This quote just screams out vulnerability and community to me. I know for myself there are times I am afraid to admit my fears or insecurities, but being able …

Him
by: Ian Clancy
Calling God’s bluff that salvation’s not enough
Pursuit’s in lue of too much pain
The first drop of water is reason enough
For us to never drink again
But all He wants is more
and all we want is safety
For us to say we’ll go with what we know
is to have nothing to say
We walk across coals to prove our faith when we’re called
to seven times the fiery blaze
But all He wants is more
and all we want is safety
So step outside of the door and …

From Scott Hunter’s Facebook Page:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who actually is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strived valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again and again because there is no effort with out error and short coming; who does actually try to do the …

“The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.” (Matthew 13:44)

This is taken from Brennen’s book, Abba’s Child, pages 116-118 read more by clicking title…

If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is not, cannot even conceive
of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated
fact of the world? Read more by clicking the title above…

Those of you who have fathered a child may understand what it feels like to hold your little one in your arms knowing that you haven’t the ability to give him the one thing that would wipe away the tears. I stood there with my boy in my arms as helpless as a fireman trying to explain to a child that he can’t retrieve her favorite pet from the burning house.

THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO.

They came in to find a full meal and an embracing community of Christ followers. As I mentioned, Manju invited us to her house to do our meal and have our worship time. Well, last night a dozen and a half people enjoyed a full meal that was a mix of American food and Americanized Indian food and had a great time singing and sharing and praying…

I found out that the church exists in the NICU at Children’s Hospital in Colorado Springs, not because it was in a building. It was not even in a building as our culture defines church. The church existed because 2 or more followers of Christ were present. ..

We ARE the church. We do not GO to church. Therefore, the church is wherever we find ourselves and this morning it was sitting in a booth eating biscuits at Chick-Fil-A. The beauty of this undercover church is