reminder of what biblical worship is

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Worship is Life.

"Without the life of the worshipper, the act of worship is worthless"(Allen P. Ross, Recalling the Hope of Glory, 33...

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What God's Holiness Demanded His Grace Provided

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Hey folks in the Los Angeles area...

Christ Community Church is hosting a free Evangelism Seminar on Saturday, January 10th from 10am-5pm (lunch will be provided!). One of the elders, Steve Lantz, will be conducting this seminar and it will be excellent. He has entitled it: "No Fear No Guilt Evangelism!"Also, you won't want to miss two sessions on Israel's History and Geography seminar as well as the Old Testament Theology seminar to...

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alarm clock

Today I overslept two and a half hours. Yesterday I overslept an hour and a half. I think it's time to get a new alarm clo...

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Christmas Celebration

Talking with a friend this morning brought to mind the core of the Christmas story, namely, Jesus Christ coming to earth to die. I heard a sermon last week which drove this truth home to my heart as the preacher expounded Matthew 1:18ff and ended up in Isaiah 53. The wonderful truths of these texts...

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Don't Make God a Liar

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Psalm 8 chiasm

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The sovereignty of Jesus in salvation

I read Luke 24 last night and this portion of Scripture struck me anew:Luke 24:44-45 Now He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then...

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The divine intrusion

This morning I was reading on the virgin birth of our Savior when I came across this quote:"The virgin birth is a sign of God's judgment on human nature. The race needs a redeemer, but cannot itself produce one; not by its own decision or desire, not by the processes of education and civilization, not as a precipitate of its own evolution. The redeemer must come from outside. Here, as elsewhere, 'all...

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True Worship

From Gerald Wilson,"I believe firmly that true worship incorporates acknowledging and repenting of sin. Only then do we realize how totally dependent on God and his gracious mercy we really are" (Psalms: Volume 1, NIVAC, 197).I find this so refreshing and apropos to my life. I concur with Wilson in that worship engages both the heart and the soul which leads to self-examination which then results...

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Are You Waiting for Jesus?

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Christmas concert pictures from the Master's College

These are some pictures from our time at the concert last week:Elizabeth and I at home by our treeElizabeth and baby Kirkland in front of our treeElizabeth and Kelly (formerly in our youth groupnow at Master's College)Kelly and I at Master'sElizabeth and Megan (on the Outreach Week teamto our church)...

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Can the sermon bless the preacher more than the hearers?

Perhaps this can happen. And perhaps this happened on Wednesday of this week at our mid-week service at church. I preached on Psalm 6 and I had a wonderful time. I'm not sure if things came out cohesively and cogently but in my heart and soul, I was greatly edified by God's Word.I don't think I'm overstating...

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The weightiness of preaching

Here's the quote for today:"What gives preaching its seriousness is that the mantle of the preacher is soaked with the blood of Jesus and singed with the fire of hell."John Pip...

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