After so many of you had strong opinions from my post yesterday, I thought we would flip the subject. I thought what Darin said was spot on, in that, there are a lot of great lyrics being written today. Something about our fallen bodies makes us focus on the negative too much sometimes.
So I’d love [...]

Do you ever think about what you sing in church? Sometimes it is hard to do so. Songs have a lot of lyrics and usually (at least for me) you have to sing a song a number of times before the meaning of the lyrics truly sinks in.
Jay and I had a short conversation yesterday [...]

I watch The Bachelor.
There I said it.
Yes I know, it is a wretched show that no God fearing person should watch, but Rose gets sucked into it every season and so we watch it together.
This is the first season I actually know someone on the show. She got the “first impression rose” on the show [...]

I recently wrote a paper for class on this and am currently navigating this in my job as well. This weekend we have a Christmas concert at my church and we have several people involved who are not believers.
A couple days ago I twittered this: Anyone have an opinion about whether non-Christians should be involved [...]

This will be the last post in this series you can catch out the other posts if you want:
Part One // Part Two // Part Three
A Theology.
At this point it would be good to examine two different types of worship that James Torrance labels “Unitarian worship” and “Trinitarian worship.” At face value Unitarian worship is [...]

Part Two
Worship in the New Testament.
If I could summarize the shift in how worship is presented in the New Testament from the Old Testament it would be with this: Jesus.
The book of Hebrews provides a beneficial outline for coming to this conclusion. The Old Testament placed great value in worship through the priesthood, sanctuary, sacrifice, [...]