Sermons and Biblical Studies

I cannot speak for you, but I want to be among those who worship. I do not want just to be a part of some great ecclesiastical machine where the pastor turns the crank and the machine runs. You know—the pastor loves everybody and everybody loves him. He has to do it. He is paid … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MISSING IN CHURCHES; CHURCH: RELIGIOUS GAME”

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”

Now, worship is the missing jewel in modern evangelicalism. We’re organized; we work; we have our agendas. We have almost everything, but there’s one thing that the churches, even the gospel churches, do not have: that is the ability to worship. We are not cultivating the art of worship. It’s the one shining gem that … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MISSING IN CHURCHES”

There is probably not another field of human activity where there is so much waste as in the field of religion.… In the average church we hear the same prayers repeated each Sunday year in and year out with, one would suspect, not the remotest expectation that they will be answered. It is enough, it … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MEANINGLESS; CHURCH: INEFFECTIVENESS; ACTIVITY: RELIGIOUS”

Worship rises or falls in any church altogether depending upon the attitude we take toward God, whether we see God big or whether we see Him little. Most of us see God too small; our God is too little. David said, “O magnify the Lord with me,” and “magnify” doesn’t mean to make God big. … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MEANINGLESS; CHURCH: CONCEPT OF GOD”

Years ago in Mexico, I was attracted by the sight of an old, old church. I walked in with my hat removed and found that the church had no floor except the ground itself. I paused to look around at the statues and the carvings and then noticed that an elderly Mexican lady had come … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
MEANINGLESS”

All of the examples that we have in the Bible illustrate that glad and devoted and reverent worship is the normal employment of moral beings. Every glimpse that is given us of heaven and of God’s created beings is always a glimpse of worship and rejoicing and praise because God is who He is. The … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
FOR ETERNITY”

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. The Knowledge of the Holy, … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
ESSENCE OF; CONCEPT OF GOD”

The essence of spiritual worship is to love supremely, to trust confidently, to pray without ceasing and to seek to be Christlike and holy and to do all the good we can for Christ’s sake. Matthew 22:37–39; Romans 8:28–30; 1 Thessalonians 5:16–17; 1 Peter 5:7 The Root of the Righteous, 148.

I have to be faithful to what I know to be true, so I must tell you that if you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week.… Too many of us try to discharge our obligations to God Almighty in one day—usually one trip … Continue reading “WORSHIP:
DAILY”