Adoration sets the tone for the entire prayer. It reminds us Whom we are addressing, Whose presence we have entered, Whose attention we have gained.
01892 – Adoration Sets the Tone
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01130 – The Ideal of Church Music
There is in all true church music a spirit of adoration, aspiration and reverence, and a sense of assurance. To aid the soul to become more keenly and deeply conscious of itself, its supreme personal quality, its high and enduring worth, is the ideal of church music....
00899 – The Mission of Church Music
The ideal of church music is found in its function. This function is religious: to bring to stronger and clearer consciousness and to greater vitality our inherent religious nature. At the heart of church music must be the consciousness of this religious nature: the...
00880 – Music Leadership for Worship
Make no mistake about it: the most important musical group in the church is the congregation. Worship is for all of God’s people; the New Testament doctrine of the priesthood of all believers calls for the saints to lift up their voices (whether musically gifted or...
00749 – Christian Worship: Like a Disastrous Mother’s Day Breakfast
[…recalling the time when he was young, and he and his brother made a disaster out of preparing Mother’s Day breakfast for their mother…] Even when Christian worship is at its best, it is much like that Mother’s Day breakfast. It is always the work of amateurs, people...
00738 – Worship and God’s People
Worship, embracing both adoration and action, is nothing but the outworking of God-centeredness in the individual and corporate life of God’s people. from Worship: Adoration and Action
00737 – Worship and Adoration
To worship is to quicken the conscience of the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. All this is gathered up in that...
00732 – The Endless Adoration of God
The worshiper’s journey is complete": from the broad reaches of God’s creation through the guiding lines of Scripture to the disturbing inner recesses of the heart, there remains only the prayer. May the God praised with and without speech find acceptable the words...
00671 – The Christian Life: Unending Festival of Praise
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a Eucharistic community, ceaselessly...
00493 – Celebration: The Ultimate Definition of Worship
Almost everything about being a Christian can be faked. But there is one thing I’ve found that can’t be faked, and that’s laughter—free, childlike, infectious laughter. Going to church used to be such drudgery to me until I found out that drudgery was a sign that I...