A Little Fun with New Year’s Resolutions
Enjoy a humorous take on the challenge of making New Year’s resolutions and our tendency to be overly ambitious with our goal setting. *This is an older, but popular post from my early days of blogging in 2010. The Lighter Side of Making...
Worship Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
32 tips for worship–how convenient. One for every day of the month with a couple left over. I’d love to say I planned it this way… To tell the truth, there are still lots of tips that I didn’t cover. Some of these I am...
10 More Practical Tips to Get the Most out of Your Worship
Continuing the list of worship tips from the culmination of the Christmas Worship Challenge, this post will help you remember and review action steps from the series. 11. Rejoice spontaneously. Take a cue from Mary as she first receives the...
10 Practical Tips to Deepen Your Worship Now
As promised, today begins a summary of the worship tips from The Christmas Worship Challenge. All of the worship tips can be applied in many ways. In order to help us get the most out of the time we invested in worship this month, it will be...
We Don’t Worship Alone
Discover the power of relational worship in this inspiring conclusion to the Christmas Worship Challenge. Start your New Year with worship with practical tips, Scripture reflections, and encouragement to press into deeper intimacy with God in...
Why You Should Sing in the New Year with a New Song
Sing a New Song? What’s wrong with the old one? Does this mean that we need to be continually learning new songs? It can include that, but I believe that the psalmist is beckoning us toward something deeper than variety. Are we encouraged to...
Celebrate Christmas: Give God the Gift of Yourself
“Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages).”—Hebrews 13:8 AMP Today we celebrate the birth of Christ, the saving gift of God for all mankind. Though once a baby, Jesus is forever God. The...
The Worship of Gratitude
“Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe…—Hebrews 12:28 ESV Because God gives, I receive with grateful worship Unshakable. God...
Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child
As Christmas is almost upon us, let’s take a few minutes to take a peek at Christmas through the eyes of a child. We’re going to use my favorite literary tool, the anagram, to order our thoughts. C – Countdown Kids spend the...