My soul followeth hard after thee; Thy right hand upholdeth me. Psalm 63:8 (KJV) Continue reading
Category: Worship
No Other Gods
Don’t worship any other god, because I, the LORD, the Jealous One, am a jealous God. Exodus 34:14 (NCV) Continue reading
Wanna be Blessed?
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. Psalms 1:1-2 (ESV) Continue reading
The Heart Kicks
“Worship is when the mind apprehends great truth about God, and the heart kicks in with deep feelings of brokenness or wonder and gladness and admiration and gratitude, and the mouth says something like, ‘Blessed be God! O blessed and praised and honored and glorified be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.’”
John Piper
Happiness
“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
Jonathan Edwards
Scribbling
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis
Completes Our Enjoyment
“It’s not out of a compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are. The delight is incomplete until it is expressed. In the same way, we delight to praise God because our praise of him not merely expresses, but it completes our enjoyment.”
C.S. Lewis
In the Heart
“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart – not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.”
John Piper