Staying home to "watch church" is like staying home from a friend's wedding to watch the ceremony virtually. And keeping your wedding gift with you. Your presence and solidarity and love and hugs and eye contact and singing are needed. It's not just about passively...
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the riversflow in the right direction, will the earth turnas taught, and if not how shallI correct it?Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,can I do better?Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrowscan do it and I...
When you sing with children, you are creating memories ... musical memories for the soul. In this high tech world the music we choose to sing with children makes us responsible for what we put into their hearts. from "The Chorister"
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
What you do in the present--by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself--will last into God's future. from Surprised by...
Sing, my tongue; sing, my hand;sing, my feet, my knee,my loins, mywhole body.Indeed I am His choir.
We should be careful about the words of the music we sing, and ensure that those words communicate truth.
To fail to sing is to give darkness a place in your soul, to wallow in the defeat you're trying to escape.
Slow me down, Lord.Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with...
We will pay money to go to church to hear a Christian Artist sing about God, but we won't go to church for free to meet with God in a prayer meeting.