Friday, March 26thWorship is connecting, surrendering, and responding to the revelation of who God is and what wants to do in us and through us.The last observation of worship I want to spend some time on is worship as a response. Specifically, worship is a weapon. An offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Worship can prepare us and equip us.Simply put, we were born on a battlefield between good...  Read More

Thursday, March 26thToday’s emphasis is on surrender.  How will you respond to The One who surrendered his life for you? Read through Revelation 4-5 titled “Worshipping God in heaven”.   Notice how things are repeated 3 times, it’s to emphasize perfection and completeness. Holy means "set apart” so holy, holy, holy is the expression of God’s perfect “set apart-ness”, His being placed in His rightf...  Read More

How do you define worship?  What does it mean to you?We often limit the idea of worship as being solely musical, a reciting of words to a beat with notated melody.  Yet, how easy is it to go through the motions?  We have music playing in the background while we work, we can almost unconsciously sing the lyrics without awareness of the meaning of what we are saying or the intention behind it.  At t...  Read More

Tuesday, March 24thWorship is connecting, surrendering and responding to the revelation of who God is and what He wants to do in us and through us.This first aspect of worship I want to pause on today is how worship reveals who God is or worship is the revelation of who God is and what he has done.Notice how David is inviting the people to worship who God is and what he has done.1 Chronicles 16:7-...  Read More

Monday, March 22Our discussion this week is a unique one, because there are some who absolutely love this, others who don’t mind, but are confused, and others that don’t want to really have anything to do with it.Think about it. Where else do you experience corporate singing? Singing together in public places?Sure birthdays? We sing Happy birthday.Some say karaoke, but I don’t think so because you...  Read More

Thursday, March 19thI gave the summary statement yesterday that the power of serving others is humility in posture and obedience in action. How do you serve those that are close to you? (spouse, friends, parents, siblings).Husbands, for a moment, let me on you. Ephesians 5 it talks about wives submitting to their husbands. Typically we stop there and say, “yeah, wifey, you need to submit.” Keep re...  Read More

Thursday, March 19thRead 1 Peter 4:10- 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.See that, each of you? Not just those who are paid to serve. Not just those whose gifts are more visible or dynamic. Each of you, whatever your gift is, which was given to you from God, use that power, ability to serve others.Let...  Read More

Wednesday, March 18thAccording to Jesus, serving redefines our greatness through humility and redefines our heart posture, under Christ and for others.Today, let’s look at a parable, story, that Jesus shares with us.Matthew 25:14-30- 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bag...  Read More

Tuesday, March 17thJesus redefines greatness through humility and shows us that at the cross. Serving pushes against pride. But I think serving can be sneaky and should push against those of us who are over responsible. Because there are some of you thinking, I’m already serving people a ton. I hardly have time to take care of myself and now I feel guilty that I’m not doing enough.Hold that though...  Read More

Monday, March 16thI don’t know about you, but how do you interact with “greatness”?Think about it in a couple of different ways. First, how do we define greatness? Or even what is the greatest?We have greatest of all time lists. Greatest actors of all time? Greatest musicians of all time? Greatest leaders of all time? We have lists for athletes; greatest basketball player of all time- Jordan, Kobe...  Read More

Thursday, March 12thGenerosity reflects who God is, reveals who we are, and declares who we trust. Generosity demonstrates our trust in God.Read Matthew 6:21-24- 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darknes...  Read More

Thursday, March 12thGenerosity reveals the intention of our heart. Generosity reveals who we are.Notice Matthew 6:1-4- “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be...  Read More