“…Our ordinary experiences of beauty are given to us to provide a clue, a starting-point, a signpost, from which we move on to recognize, to glimpse, to be overwhelmed by, to adore, and so to worship, not just the majesty, but the beauty of God himself.” NT Wright, For All God’s Worth I’ve been thinking…
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away…
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” … [Herod] sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully…
When you hear the word “worship,” what comes to mind? Do you automatically think of singing? The worship service? Do you imagine yourself a spectator, or are you actively engaged? The most common Hebrew word translated as “worship” in the Old Testament is “shachah.” Strong’s Concordance defines “shachah” as bowing down. We see Abraham’s servant…
In the last daysthe mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains;it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.He will teach us his ways, so that we…