The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
03993 – Prepare!
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01218 – Advent Preparations
Advent is not the kind of "preparation" that involves shopping and parties and cards. Such illusions of abundance disguise the true cravings of our weary souls. Advent is preparation for the demands of newness that will break the tired patterns of fear in our lives....
00897 – Week-by-Week Music Ministry Most Important
But for this writer, the most important role of the music ministry is NOT in the preparation and presentation of special programs. Instead, it is in the week after week leadership given in our worship services. Whether the singing of a hymn, a choral anthem, the organ...
00856 – God Should Be Worshiped in Rehearsal and Corporate Worship
The role of worship is foundational to the work of the church… God must be first in our private and corporate lives. If we have not placed our private and corporate relationship with God in first place, we cannot expect God to be active in our lives and church. Music...
00728 – Reading of Scripture During Worship
We may take the task of reading the Scriptures and attending to the reading of Scriptures in worship lightly, failing to discern what God is up to with us in that effort. A faithful, that is, a full-of-faith rendering of the Scriptural word in terms of both denotation...
00573 – Learning to Wait on God’s Timing
Our sense of urgency is balanced by the requirement to wait—to wait on the timing of God, which we can neither predict nor force. And the poor of the world have much to teach us about waiting—waiting with hope, purpose, and active preparation for change; waiting...
00426 – Faith Meeting the Road of Life
For some people religion is attending weekly services. And in preparation for those services, they dress the part, do and say the right things. That’s good, for the hours they are in service. But it’s actually after a person leaves the meeting house that the rubber of...
00300 – Don’t Just Fail; Learn from Failure
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
00045 – Practicing Dying
When I was a medical school professor, I invited my students to view their own experiences of sickness and medical care as a way to empathize with their patients’ experiences. Like them, we can prepare for our dying by “practicing” dying in response to situations of...