Post Category: Worship

Mark Altrogge gives us seven helpful reasons why God commands us to sing to him....

An incredibly helpful article for us to consider! For the Church andRyan Higginbottom have given us some thought-provoking ideas to think through! Sermon, prayer, song, postlude. The worship service ends and the scramble beginsget the children, get the jackets, head for the door. It's time for lunch. Though we exchange brief "how-are-yous" with the folks in our pew, our ...

some challenging encouraging thoughts from Paul Tripp: Church is wonderful. Church is important. Church is meant to remind us of the miserable condition in which sin left us and our world, and of the glorious rescue of redeeming grace. The songs we sing, the Scriptures we read, the sermons we listen to, and the prayers we engage in are all designed to keep us from ever...

Crossway provided an excellent post that was adapted from Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work by Tom Nelson A Journey toward Understanding Work I believe how we view our work and how we do our work matters a great deal more than we might imagine. Yet when it comes to this important area of my life, particularly how my work connects to my Christian fait...

The Gospel Coalition had the following article byKeith Getty that really encapsulates why we do what we do here at Bethel. I love Yo-Yo Ma. The stellar, nearly flawless strokes of his bow dancing upon tensioned stringsthey resurrect meticulously crafted melodies conjured centuries ago among master musicians. Centuries have passed since then. And yet I lie on my bed at n...

An excellent article byTony Reinke aStaff writer, desiringGod.org It's easy to become a passive sermon consumer. As a young Christian, I started to sense this tendency in my own listening, so one Sunday I brought a notebook to church and devised a simple little practice to get my discernment juices flowing before listening to sermons. It was as simple as asking three litt...

Did you ever sit in a classroom wondering what the point was? I distinctly remember that feeling as I struggled through calculus in college. The course was taught as if the application of the principles was self-evident. And perhaps to the math geeks in the class it was. But to this English lit major, it was a constant, and losing, exercise in purely abstract thinking. Wit...

An incredibly helpful video to watch is HERE from Desiring God! Corporate worship is one of the best remedies for our sin-sick souls. Without fail, trials and troubles renew every week. Big or small, they draw our gaze away from Jesus and distract us from God's amazing mercy and grace. Instead of resting in the gospel, we frantically look elsewhere for help. But every Su...

In His person and in His name we all enter the sanctuary fearlessly. And because He enters the Holy of Holies "in our name," our worship "in the name of Jesus" also reaches the same place. His name bears us, sanctifies our being, hallows our lips which are otherwise defiled to sing hymns of praise, and leads our worship to heaven. We cannot invocate God and glorify His nam...

"Greatness is equated [by the world, and by us too often] with doing something large, in a notable way, as fast as you can. That mindset is burning a lot of us out. But when we come to the gospel of Jesus, it's almost like He is saying, 'Follow Me, and learn to do small things, slowly, over a long period of time.'" "We are taught to sprint . . . but most things that matte...