In Christ Alone

The Priority of Worship Worship is not the slow song that the choir sings. Worship is not the amount you place in the offering basket. Worship is not volunteering in children's church. Yes, these may be acts or expressions of worship, but they do not define what true worship really is. There are numerous definitions of the word  worship . Yet, one in particular encapsulates the priority we should give to worship as a spiritual discipline:  Worship is to honor with extravagant love and extreme submission (Webster's Dictionary,1828). True worship, in other words, is defined by the priority we place on  who  God is in our lives and  where  God is on our list of priorities. True worship is a matter of the heart expressed through a lifestyle of holiness. Thus, if your lifestyle does not express the beauty of holiness through an extravagant or exaggerated love for God, and you do not live in extreme or excessive submission to God, then I invite you to make...

8   Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’who was, and is, and is to come.”  9   Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,  10   the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:  11   “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” Heaven Worship: I can't imagine what it's going to be like when we get to heaven. In these verses the Apostle John describes in detail what we're going to experience and also what we're going to be doing when we are in the Lord's Kingdom. This will be the re...

1 Shout joyfully to the  Lord , all the earth. 2 Serve the  Lord  with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. 3 Know that the  Lord  Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and  Some mss read His we are not we ourselves; We are  His people and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And  His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. 5 For the  Lord  is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations. Wake up to sound of His Word! Wake up and praise His Name! Rejoice that He is our Shepherd and Our Faithful Father! Thank Him DAILY for what He has done! Amen!