We will go before God to be judged, and God will ask us, “Where are your wounds?” and we will say, “We have no wounds” and God will ask, “Was there nothing worth fighting for?”
00955 – “Where Are Your Wounds?”
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00926 – The Church Musician & Stewardship
If we faithfully followed God’s example, there would no longer be the crassness and cynicism of the throwaway or the false pomp and pretense of art for the ages. Nor would the Holy Spirit be continually pestered to turn poor work into blessed work. The Christian...
00900 – The Rich Engagement of Faith with Profound Musical Expressions
Is the rich engagement of faith with the deepest and most profound musical expressions of humankind totally off the screen? Are people to be denied this legacy and treated contemptuously? I can only speak from my own experience, which is that people long for what is...
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...
00796 – Worship & the Emerging Church
I wonder if in the rush of creative planning and the desire to see people enjoy our worship gatherings in the modern church, we have pushed to the sidelines what we are supposed to be doing… In the emerging church, we need to make sure we view our worship services as...
00724 – Worship = “Worth-ship”
The word worship itself is fascinating. It is a shortened English version of the old Anglo-Saxon word weorthscipe, which is transliterated “worth-ship.” It simply means “worthiness.” Thus to worship someone means to recognize and to declare that person’s worth. But to...
00582 – God Provides Us Work to Do
Plenty of people write to me in the hope of getting some spectacular work to do, and at the same time they fail to see the worthwhileness of the immediate duty God has given them.
00176 – This Is It!
And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all of it…all...
00154 – Get Serious!
Everything worth doing has a hard part. If it didn’t, it would have been done already. Decide that the work is worth doing; get serious about the parts that are worth our effort.