10 Powerful Insights About Praise and Worship

Massive responsibility rests on the shoulders of every Praise and Worship leader across the globe because God’s presence in a church meeting depends on it and the destinies of church members depends on it. If worship is done in such a way that God does not show up and minister in a meeting, someone on the brink of disaster or tragedy will leave church the same way they came and that becomes a missed opportunity for them to receive from God. It is time for us to get serious about this fundamental pillar of ministry in the house of The Lord. In order for the worship experience to be different, I think its time we did things differently.

Grace Made You Perfect

What the 10 Commandments could never do. God did by His Grace.

Exclusive Psalmody, Worship, and the Covenanted Uniformity in Religion of the Westminster Standards

Are you aware that the Westminster Standards, including the “Directory for Public Worship”, were produced in fulfillment of the Solemn League and Covenant (cf. the title pages of this and the other documents produced by the Assembly, which read, “as a part of the covenanted uniformity in religion betwixt the churches of Christ in the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland”)? Are you aware that the “Directory for Public Worship” mandated only the singing of Psalms in public worship (as a part of the covenanted uniformity in worship)?

Israel, the Land of Purple

Akkadian was the ancient, eastern Semitic language of Assyria and Babylonia written in cuneiform script. Cuneiform writing was composed of slim, wedge shaped triangular elements. The Semitic language was a sub-family of Afroasiatic languages that included Akkadian, Arabic, Ehiopic, Hebrew and Phonecian. In the Akkadian language, the word Canaan can be translated as “purple.”

Discover The Real Truth of God and Man

Man has become complacent about life. He has become lazy to think about it. He accepts life. He accepts his religion.

War: One Of God’s Penalties For Nations That Love Murder, Sexual Sin, Corrupt Government, Lewdness

The author discusses the reality that God judges nations that spurn His laws, and that war in only one of the very many ways that the Almighty One executes judgment on nations. With a parable as a guide to understanding that God is holy and that He will, and does punish sin, various of our nation’s violations of Yahweh’s laws are discussed, as well as the continuing increase in judgments from God because of these our sins.

The Failure of the Resurrection

I don’t know how many of you were at this year’s annual ‘Smith Lecture’, but it was a good night – highly stimulating and intellectually challenging – and afterwards Ange and I got into a discussion over dinner where she made the comment that the older she got the more impressed she was at how intelligent the people around her were, to which I responded by saying that I had been coming to the opposite conclusion! I wasn’t thinking of my friends of course (while Ange quite possibly was) but of the vast mass of persons in our society and across the Western world who seem to have been suckered in to believing that most of the problems we face in our communities are really the responsibility of either the Muslims or the gays or some combination of the two.

Tips on Biblical Meditation

Should Christians meditate? Oh yes! Not the Eastern stuff, mind you. That can get you in big trouble as a believer. But the Psalmist was clear that meditation is in. In the New Testament, it’s even kicked up a notch.

Just Do It! A Sermon on Luke 17:5-10

…”Will any one of you who has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?

Not My Will, But Yours Be Done!

Jesus was kneeling at Gethsemane, with his face to the ground, He was in intense prayer, for He knew what was coming, He knew all the graphic details of the hours that were before Him, and He knew He had to endure it. Being in His very nature God, He had foreseen the whip and the thorns and the nails and the spear.

Jesus Christ and His Role, According to Angels

There is a massive spiritual movement sweeping our planet. Old religious ways are being challenged and the truth is being sought-after by the masses. More people are connecting back to The Creator God, and the angels are speaking out, about the truth of what the Godhead really is and exposing many untruths written about past events. They give their messages with love, for the betterment of mankind.

Prayer, Why?

Prayer sets humans apart from all other life on this earth. Granted, we have much in common with the animals. Like them, we are need food, air, and water. Like them, we are born, we live,and we die. But only humans pray. Why?