Christians gather together in churches. We call our churches “houses of worship”. We call our services “worship services”. Our preachers often begin such services with the words, “Come, let us worship”. Yet the actual, intimate blessing of spirit-to-spirit worship is an almost unwelcome visitor. Why? The answers are as varied as there are churches, but one [...]
Archive for July, 2011
The Fall of the House of Worship, Pt. 4
Posted in Worship, tagged Christianity, Devotional, Faith, God, house of worship, Jesus, Religion, white fields, worship on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Fall of the House of Worship, Pt. 3
Posted in Worship, tagged Christianity, Faith, God, house of worship, jealous, Jesus, Religion, tent of meeting, white fields, worship on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting”. Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to [...]
The Fall of the House of Worship, Pt. 2
Posted in Worship, tagged Christianity, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, house of worship, Jesus, Religion, white fields, worship on July 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remember the Hebrew & Greek words for “worship” from the first lesson? They both denoted a literal prostration of oneself in reverent humility, even like unto a dog reverently licking its master’s hand (an undiluted synthesis of fear, affection and devotion … aren’t dogs awesome?). But these definitions seem quite foreign in the contemporary Christian church’s “worship [...]
The Fall of the House of Worship, Pt. 1
Posted in Worship, tagged Christianity, Devotional, Faith, God, house of worship, Jesus, Religion, white fields, worship on July 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.” – Ecclesiastes 5:1 “Guard” is translated from the Hebrew “shamar“, which means “to create a hedge about“. The author is issuing a kind of [...]
The Tabernacle – Lesson Four
Posted in The Tabernacle, tagged Atonement, Bible, Bible Study, blood, Christianity, Jesus, Religion, sacrifice, Tabernacle, white fields on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Question: How did Christ’s death on the cross PROVE these three statements? GOD IS HOLY GOD IS JUST GOD IS LOVING “A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.” – Psalm 34:19 “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – [...]
