Category Archives: worship

showing off in church

WHOSE GLORY ARE YOU SEEKING? Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 1 Watch how you walk when you go to the house of God. Drawing near for the purpose of listening is better than merely offer gifts like fools, because they do not even … Continue reading

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the worship priority

WHY WORSHIP MATTERS MORE Mark 14:3-9 3 While he was staying at Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, as he reclined at the table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of very costly myrrh of nard, and … Continue reading

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when religion becomes robbery

ARE YOU WORSHIPPING ON WALL STREET? Mark 11:15-19 15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the … Continue reading

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empty vending machine

ARE YOU DELIVERING WHAT YOUR WORSHIP PROMISES? Mark 11:12-14 12 On the next day, when they had come from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing a fig tree in leaf in the distance, he went to see whether he might … Continue reading

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the old ways and the new Lord

Mark 2:23-28 23 Then he happened to be passing by the grain fields on one of the Sabbaths, and his disciples began to make their way along while plucking the heads of grain. 24 So the Pharisees were saying to … Continue reading

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the “show me” State

Isaiah 66:5-11 5 Listen to this word from Yahveh, you who are anxious about keeping his word: Your own people who hate you and exclude you for my name’s sake have said, “Let Yahveh show his glory, so that we … Continue reading

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the days of a tree

Isaiah 65:18-22 18 But rejoice and keep shouting joyfully over what I am creating; because I am creating Jerusalem as a reason to rejoice, and its people as a joy. 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and have joy because … Continue reading

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the appropriate fast

Isaiah 58:7-14 7 Is the appropriate fast not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the poorly dressed, to cover them, and not to isolate yourself from your own … Continue reading

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whiners worship

Isaiah 58:1-6 Shout out a throaty shout, do not keep it back! Lift up your voice like you would a ram’s horn! Announce to my people their wrongdoing, to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet day after day … Continue reading

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his voice and his arm

Isaiah 30:29-33 29 There will be a song for you as at night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahveh, to the … Continue reading

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