Making room for God in our worship

My son and I were driving the other day, heading to the mall so he could finish up his last minute shopping – so cute. Out of the blue he said to me, that when he gets older and has his own place, he’s going to have everything perfectly in order in his house. Everything [...]

What you feel vs. what is real p2

Before you can make real progress against legalism and condemnation or any other sin, you need to understand the importance of what happens inside your head. The cross centered life starts with biblical thinking. Are you going to build your life on what you feel or on what is real?
Scottish theologian Sinclair Ferguson has noted, [...]

What you feel vs. what is real

Good morning… Over the next couple of days I’m going to be sharing some excerpts of a book I have just finished reading…The book is titled The Cross Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney and it is a fabulous book. I’ll finish up this section tomorrow, but here’s something to think about today…and it’s something we [...]

Worship and the Word

I’ll be short today, but I have to just say something about the necessity of reading God’s Word (the Bible) every day, as a part of our worship. I got two separate distress-calls today from friends of mine whose lives are in a bit of trouble, to say the least. As I listened to them, [...]

Social Justice and worship

There’s a tv show on right now called Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew – or something close to that. It’s funny because I typically don’t watch ‘reality’ shows (if you can call anything on tv ‘reality’, but I digress), but I don’t know, something about watching people who have ‘had it all’ revealing that in [...]