Author: Administrador

I am disappointed that we come to church without a sense of God or a feeling of humble reverence. There are false religions, strange religious cults and Christian cults that think they have God in a box someplace, and when they approach that box they feel a sense of awe. Of course, you and I … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
REVERENCE; CHURCH: PRESENCE OF GOD”

Probably David lying on his back on the green meadow at night, brooding over the mystery of the moon and the stars and the littleness of man in the total scheme of things, worshiping the God who had made him only a little lower than the angels, was a truer man than the astronomer who … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE; SCIENCE”

Man was made to worship God. God gave to man a harp and said, “Here above all the creatures that I have made and created I have given you the largest harp. I put more strings on your instrument and I have given you a wider range than I have given to any other creature. … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE; WORSHIP: MISSING IN CHURCHES”

Reverence, for one thing, will always be present in the heart of the one who loves Christ in the Spirit. The Spirit gives a holy solemnity to every thought of Jesus, so that it is psychologically impossible to think of the true Christ with humor or levity. Neither can there be any unbecoming familiarity. The … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
REVERENCE”

I believe a local church exists to do corporately what each Christian believer should be doing—and that is to worship God. It is to show forth the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. It is to reflect the glories of Christ ever shining upon us through the … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE; CHURCH: FOCUS”

One of the greatest tragedies that we find, even in this most enlightened of all ages, is the utter failure of millions of men and women ever to discover why they were born.… Those who have followed the revelation provided by the Creator God have accepted that God never does anything without a purpose. We … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE; LIFE PURPOSE”

We of the nonliturgical churches tend to look with some disdain upon those churches that follow a carefully prescribed form of service, and certainly there must be a good deal in such services that has little or no meaning for the average participant—this not because it is carefully prescribed but because the average participant is … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MISSING IN CHURCHES; CHURCH: SERVICES; CHURCH: ROUTINE”

I refer to the loss of the concept of majesty from the popular religious mind. The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men.… With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MISSING IN CHURCHES; GOD: HIS MAJESTY”

Now we were made to worship, but the Scriptures tell us something else again. They tell us that man fell and kept not his first estate; that he forfeited the original glory of God and failed to fulfill the creative purpose, so that he is not worshiping now in the way that God meant him … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
PURPOSE FOR EXISTENCE”

In my opinion, the great single need of the moment is that light-hearted superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up, with His train filling the temple. The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MISSING IN CHURCHES; CHURCH: CURRENT CONDITION”