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The True Vine
Pastor • The Master's Touch Ministries • Illustration • • 165 views • 1:02:48
Understanding what God has afforded us in Jesus!
Worship
Worship Team • Worship Team - 9am • Illustration • • 431 views
CCLI Song Number 7119315
Author(s): Jonathan David HelserMelissa HelserMolly SkaggsJake Stevens
Recorded by: The Martin Family
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 21 views
God being God, Annie Dillard playfully suggested that along with our Bibles and vestments we should wear crash helmets when we worship.
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
You could cut the tension with a knife. It was universal. Not a face in the town square didn’t contort with the furrow of fear. It was palpable. Everyone seemed worried except . . . except the king. That was strange because, while others may be left with their lives once the invaders breached the wall,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 216 views
Worship songwriter, Brian Doerksen writes, The gathering of the church is meant to be a number of things: a hospital to heal the sick and wounded; a family where everyone is accepted; a school where we are taught the Word of God; and an army that engages and defeats the Enemy to see the kingdom of God…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
Folks, I have to tell you that you should feel sorry for my wife. I know, I know, you’re saying, “Huh! Not telling us anything we didn’t already know. We do feel sorry for her!” Well, I’d just say, That’s good because she married an introvert. She didn’t really know what she was getting into when she…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 16 views
You may recall these lines from this past year’s Christmas musical. They were words that George Bailey spoke to Mary on their first “date.” He said: "Mary, I know what I'm going to do tomorrow and the next day and the next year and the year after that. I'm going to leave this little town far behind,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
And yet we seem to worship everything, but Him. That’s the thing. We were created to be worshipers and all of us are really good at worship. We attribute worth to something in our lives for it is that which gives our life meaning. We can give worth to our looks, to our money, to our homes, to our families,…
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True praise of the Lord isn't affected by circumstances but is centered on the very person of God. Franz Joseph Haydn was a famous composer during the late 1700s. He lived in Austria and composed and played music for the Austrian royal family. His works are known worldwide, and, perhaps more notably,…
Illustration • • 6 views
I have so much to do today that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.—Martin Luther We’re all familiar with stress. Just as we face certain stresses today, so did the first century Christians! As Jesus traveled about the Galilean countryside, He found His way to people whom He loved very deeply.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 20 views
In 1993, Lt. Col. Gary Morsch joined the Army Reserves as a doctor to care not only for U.S. soldiers, but also for wounded civilians and prisoners of war. In 2005, as a part of the war in Iraq, he was called up to serve as the field doctor for a battalion near the Iranian border. He would take care…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
It’s kind of like chocolate covered peanuts. Yeah, that’s right chocolate covered peanuts. That’s probably what you call them. I call them “brown cocaine.” They are addictive! Every once in a while, especially around Christmas, we get some of those. Someone may give them as a Christmas gift or something.…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
The ceremony consisted of procession, chants, sacrifice, prayer, and sometimes a sacred meal. Magic and masquerade, tableaux and dramatic representations might be part of the procession. In most cases the basic ritual was prescribed by custom, and every movement of it, every word of the hymns and prayers,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
One person wrote of experiencing this kind of worship in a very likely place. He says: Locked behind the razor-wire fences of a Florida prison is no place to spend a holiday. I'd spent 15 Christmases under these less-than-festive conditions, but this year my situation looked even bleaker. I was stuck…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
He also distracts us through busyness. It was Louie Giglio who said that we do not come to church to worship, we should come “worshiping to church.” What he meant is simply this: If my schedule is too busy to allow me to worship God in private, I will usually be too distracted to worship God when I arrive…
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 24 views
Using Twitter in Church Although there are some pastors who are encouraging the use of Twitter during worship service to enhance the impact of their sermons, many are telling churchgoers to listen to the Word of God first and Tweet after church. "When you are in corporate worship, Worship!" says John…
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Matthew 21:12–13 Our minds should be focused on God and giving Him praise as we enter His house each week. Someone once wrote the following poem entitled "If You Want to Kill The Church": Never go to your church or meetings held there, If you do go, be late, it's no one's affair. If the weather is bad,…
Jeff Brown • Illustration • • 1,472 views
The Macedonian Example 1 And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. 2 Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 2 views
In church last Sunday I noticed a small child who was turning around smiling at everyone. He wasn't gurgling, spitting, humming, tearing the hymn books, or rummaging through his mother's hand-bag. He was just smiling. Suddenly his mother jerked him around and in a stage whisper that everyone could hear,…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 3 views
“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.” William Temple, Readings in St. John’s Gospel, First Series (London:…
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In the "Religion" section of our local newspaper, an article appeared titled "Youth Worship, 2.0." It described the worship activity of several youth churches in town, separate and apart from their "main" denominations. It described using rock music that really “gets them into it.” To enhance “hipness”…
Ian Forest-Jones • Illustration • • 177 views
Surely there is a place for delighting in worship. Even the Puritans were glad to say that man's chief end is to glorify God AND TO ENJOY him forever. So many of the Puritans tell us of their surpassing delight in worship. One of the first theological works written in America, Thomas Shepherd's WISE…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 11 views
I read recently about a congregation that decided to have four worship services each Sunday. There was one for those new to the faith. Another for those who liked traditional worship. One for those who’d lost their faith and would like to get it back. And another for those who had bad experiences with…
Dayton Kitterman • Illustration • • 3 views
Once solitude has done its work, the key to this progression is study. It s in study that we place our minds fully upon God and his kingdom. And study is brought to its natural completion in the worship of God. Source: Divine Conspiracy pg 361 / Aug 15, 2007