I heard a great sermon today. Father John Sweeney unpacked Psalm 100 in a very unique way this morning. Made my heart glad! I don't think we hear enough about what God expects of us in the way of wors...

A perennial question and point of discussion. I like to think of a worship team (worship leadership team might be more accurate) as being comprised of components of leadership. Music team alone is ...

So much of life as a worshipper is about warfare. Our trip to Las Vegas really highlighted that--again. It was evident in the planning and coming into being of the conference, it was obvious in many o...

The Worship Seminar with Tom Kraeuter, June 3, 2006 All in all it was a good experience. There were brief times of singing and prayer, but mostly this was listening to Tom speak for most of 6 hours...

There has been one thing in particular that has made me alternately smile or shake my head over the years. Have you ever walked out of a service in your home congregation or one where you've visited a...

I heard an interesting broadcast tonight on the way home from work. The voice was familiar, but I'm just not sure who it was, but the message was really one of those that made me go hmmmm. The poin...

A few topics back (<URL url="http://zionfirefriends.com/index.php?showtopic=1967">Evangelism, Part 3), I mentioned the relationship between the fruit of lips (better translated "calves of lips")...

Today is March 2, 2010, and today I heard one of the three most powerful sermons that I've heard in my 35 years in Christ. And it was not preached on Christian radio or even by a minister! Glenn Be...

Psalm 129 Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion's Enemies A Song of Ascents<LIST type="decimal"> <LI> "Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up," Let Israel now say,</LI> &l...

First, in case my bishop reads this, I must confess my transgression. I told him the source of this little quote was actually a fortune cookie. Not exactly. It was actually from the wrapper of a littl...

:stirpot: I was humming a chorus today, and it was almost a Bill Cosby "Noah" moment where I heard the Lord. :ding: *ding* "What does that phrase mean to you?" "The fruit of my lips giving t...

We had a POWERFUL time in worship on Sunday. Sunday's praise set started out with "Mighty One of Israel". The adult Sunday school class had talked about evangelism and how it generally works, corpo...

I was on my way home from church on Sunday and had Christian Radio on to accompany me on my journey. Haddon Robinson on Radio Bible Class led the discussion. The premise of the broadcast was looking a...

A lot of years ago, a famous evangelistic ministry changed the way they kept statistics. For years, they had counted the hands raised at events and called them conversions. As the leadership matured a...

Psalm 130 Hope in the LORD'S Forgiving Love A Song of Ascents<LIST type="decimal"> <LI> Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.</LI> <LI> Lord, hear my voice! Let You...

I had a friend write me recently to air some concerns about becoming overly busy with all of life’s duties. When does busy become TOO busy? This friend is a wife, parent to a couple of kids, with a...

Helena has made two points that I want to address in this observation. <QUOTE author="HelenaZF,Dec 7 2009, 09:18 AM">HelenaZF,Dec 7 2009, 09:18 AM Wrote:Songs that are too theologically complica...

Prelude: Because our Bishop’s chosen sermon topic was to speak about "The Last Word on the Jews", including issues surrounding the Jewish people and by relation, Israel and Jerusalem, he offered to le...

Psalm 131 Childlike Trust in the LORD A Song of Ascents, of David<LIST type="decimal"> <LI> O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters,...

One of my all-time favorite books is former shepherd Philip Keller’s A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23. It was early in my Christian walk, in my first very spiritually aware state. It was a huge revelation...

What a weekend!! Helena & I were invited for a time of R&R with friends in Northern Virginia, not far from Washington, DC and who attend church in the Baltimore area. As we planned for that ti...

We had an interesting service this past Sunday. We were singing "He Shall Reign" (by Don Moen, I think) and as we sang one particular line, it jumped off the screen at me. I had to share with the cong...

We had a nice service today, a combination of celebration of what God has given us as Americans and what He has given us as believers. There were several “aha” moments for me in the service. You know ...

We had a word of exhortation this morning in our service. An interesting word. It came after singing Robin Mark’s “Revival”. Part of the chorus was the illustration for the word. Quote:I can hear that...

I have to smile at this thread. Capricious is such an interesting word. I think of the many choreographies that I've seen where the fabric danced a prominent role, usually by design, but not alway...