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Category Archives: Worship
Sin & Church Attendance
Can you imagine getting drunk Saturday night and then going to church the next morning? Can you imagine rolling out of a bed you share with your live-in lover, getting dressed, and going to church? Can you imagine having beer … Continue reading
Posted in Backsliding, Character, Church, Church Attendance, Discipleship, Disobedience, Doing Good, Faithfulness, Holiness, Obedience, Personal Holiness, Repentance, Sanctification, Sin, Worship
Tagged Abihu, Ananias, bleating of sheep, Church Attendance, judgment at the house of God, lowing of oxen, Nadab, Repentance, Sapphira, Sin, Worship
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Idolatry in Early Bloom (A Word About Youth Sports)
When you are the parent of a child involved in youth sports, you know more than you want to know about gyms, football fields, baseball diamonds, and soccer fields. You know how time consuming those places are. You know how … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Choices, Christian Liberty, Church Attendance, Discipleship, Family, Fatherhood, God's Will, Idolatry, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Priorities, Sports, Worship, Youth
Tagged Christian parents and youth sports, Is it alright to miss church because of a ballgame?, keeping youth sports in right perspective, making a god out of sports, making an idol out of sports, missing church because of travel teams
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Lunchroom Trays & Jesus
You remember those lunchroom trays from your childhood, don’t you? They were so compartmentalized. They were the epitome of “a place for everything and everything in its place.” The cream corn wasn’t supposed to spill over into the mashed potatoes. … Continue reading
Posted in Church Attendance, Commitment, Discipleship, Dress and Appearance, Entertainment, Family, God's Will, Obedience, Personal Holiness, Sanctification, Separation, Work, Worship
Tagged bringing all of your life under the lordship of Christ, Do everything in the name of Jesus, Jesus wants every area of your life, lunchroom trays, Whatever you do do to the glory of God, whatever you do in word or deed
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The Food Won’t Come to You
My oldest son Ryan, who was eleven years old at the time, got off a classic line one evening. He was lying on his bed watching television, and his mother had just finished her nightly chore of preparing his supper. … Continue reading
Water Lines & Old Paths
You don’t have to be a nautical expert to know that boats must be as solid below the water line as they are above it. A boat that looks good above the water line but is rotten below it will eventually sink. Well, the … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Backsliding, Bible Study, Church Attendance, Commitment, Confession, Discipleship, Doing Good, Faithfulness, Giving, Obedience, Perseverance, Prayer, Priorities, Repentance, Righteousness, Sanctification, Scripture, Service, Sin, Stewardship, The Bible, Trusting In God, Witnessing, Worry, Worship
Tagged ask God for the old paths, how to stay in right fellowship with God, Jeremiah 6:16, rotten below the water line, What are the old paths?
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Why Do Christians Worship on Sunday?
According to the Bible, the Sabbath day is the day we call Saturday. Ask any Jewish person about that if you don’t believe me. Technically, the Jews observe the Sabbath from sundown Friday evening to sundown Saturday evening. That goes … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Resurrection, Church, Church Attendance, The Old Testament Law, The Sabbath, Worship
Tagged Is Sunday the Christian Sabbath?, Let no man judge you in regards to the Sabbath, Should Christians meet on Saturday?, Should Christians work on Sunday?, When did Christians start meeting on Sunday?
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Two Different Reactions to the Laying of the Foundation
“Ezra” series: (post #8) Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Balance, Change, Church, Elderly, God's Work, Ministry, Music, Series: "Ezra", Worship, Youth
Tagged contemporary Christian music vs. traditional, elderly Christians vs. young Christians, the Jews hire outsiders to build the temple, the old men mourned over the new temple, the sons of Asaph, Warren Wiersbe quote about contemporary music
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What Kind of Shape is Your Altar in?
“Ezra” series: (post #7) And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. Then Jeshua the son of Jozadek and his brethren the priests, … Continue reading
The Lord Opened Lydia’s Heart
Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. (Acts 16:14, N.K.J.V.) Roman emperors organized … Continue reading
Posted in Calvinism, Evangelism, God's Work, Missions, Salvation, The Heart, Witnessing, Worship
Tagged a seeker, Lydia in the Bible, Paul and the Macedonian call, Paul goes to Macedonia, Paul takes the gospel to Europe, seekers in the book of Acts, the beginning of the church in Philippi, the gospel enters Europe, The Lord opened Lydia's heart, The Roman city of Philippi
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The Disciple's Road 