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 …

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…

When you lose heart you can’t love.
When you lose heart you can’t worship… you can’t serve… Read More… Click on Title above.

Although Doyle Dykes is among the ranks of country music’s greatest legends such as Chet Atkins, Roy Acuff and Grandpa Jones, his name is virtually unknown outside the inner circle of Opry musicians. It could be that he is a generation behind and the genre has lost it’s luster amidst “new country”. However, if you love the “old” stuff or if you are a guitar player of any style, you can’t miss this living legend. Click title to read more…

I have lots of books in unpacked boxes, on my night table by my bed, on our coffee table — but I admit that a lot of them go unread. When I was working on my Masters Degree all I did was read. So, when I graduated I was just tired. But that is changing.  I think for the past couple years I have been really selective of what I invest my time in. Most of my taste has turned toward fiction.  The books I do read, I admit, I …

warfareI heard the African missionary speak to the church I was attending in 1999. He was sharing stories from his previous year. They seemed so dramatic. In my mind the stories sounded something like near poisonings and kids crawling in bed with a snake, but I can’t remember for sure. Spiritual Warfare,” he spoke. “Hogwash,” I thought! You moved to a tribal area in Africa… what were you expecting…

Our faith community meets in our furniture store.

There’s some advantages and disadvantages to that, but my favorite advantage is that it is undercover.

We have a loose schedule of events and a skeleton time frame that hardly ever gets heeded, but it’s us.

Sometimes things go as scheduled and sometimes they don’t. Tonight they didn’t…