washed people worship, “…worshiping people witness, and those who hear the witness enter the water themselves. Then they join the song, and the praise endures forever.”
Category Archives: Practical Theology
Rich in Good Works: Worship that Invests in Eternity
We face Ali Hafed’s choice every day. Where will we invest our time, energy, and resources? Will we build our security on what we can accumulate, or on who God is? The scriptures call this choice being “rich in good works” versus being rich in this world. One investment pays eternal dividends. The other leaves us searching in all the wrong places for what we already had within reach.
Worshipping While We Wait
The waiting isn’t wasted time. It’s the space where worship becomes authentic, where faith becomes real, where we learn that God himself is better than anything we’re waiting for him to do.
The Price of Healing in a Broken World
Last week’s tragedy has left many asking hard questions about responsibility, failure, and whether healing is possible when trust has been shattered. These moments force us to confront uncomfortable truths about human nature and our capacity for both good and devastating harm.
For Love’s Sake I Choose To Appeal: Why True Worship Requires Both Sovereignty and Choice
We cannot worship what is not worthy of worship – God’s sovereignty, authority, creative power, and saving work establish Him as deserving of our complete devotion. However, we cannot truly worship without choosing to worship; forced praise is not genuine praise, but rather a programmed performance.
The Garment That Matters Most on Sunday Morning
Sunday morning finds us standing before our closets, choosing what to wear to worship. We consider the weather, the occasion, what others might think. But there is a garment that matters far more than any physical clothing
18 Years of Waiting that Was 800 Years in the Making: Jesus Our Deliverer
God’s people have always cried out for deliverance, and God has always answered. But the story of deliverance doesn’t end with a single rescue. It builds through history toward a climactic victory that restores all things.
Christ Our Covenant Keeper
Christ stands at the center of this covenant story as both the covenant keeper and the One who secures our place in God’s covenant community. He lived the faithfulness Israel failed to demonstrate, died the death covenant breakers deserved, and rose to guarantee our inheritance.
Humanity’s Search for True Riches
The world continues searching for what we have already found. Our lives should demonstrate the satisfaction that comes from treasures stored in heaven, the security that rests in relationship with God, and the generosity that flows from knowing we are rich beyond measure in the One who gave Himself for us.
A Forgotten Act of Worship: Intercessory Prayer
How do we model Jesus as the perfect intercessor? We recover intercession as worship. When we pray for others, we participate in Christ’s ongoing ministry. When we stand in the gap for someone’s marriage, someone’s prodigal child, someone’s salvation, we worship by caring about what God cares about.
Intercessory prayer transforms our hearts. We stop seeing people as problems to avoid and start seeing them as people to pray for. We move beyond self-focused prayer to God-glorifying prayer. We align our hearts with Christ, who “ever lives to make intercession” for us (Hebrews 7:25).
Josh Cehulik 