Worship Wellness for Life, Home, and the Church
When’s the last time your devotion to Jesus looked financially irresponsible? When did your worship last strike others as excessive? When has your obedience appeared foolish by conventional standards?
If the answer is “never,” you might be stuck in Judas-style practical Christianity. And that’s a dangerous place to be.
As worship leaders, what’s at stake? We bear the weighty responsibility of putting words in people’s mouths. It’s time we expanded our vision beyond selecting songs.
The extraordinary humility displayed in Christ’s birth challenges our human expectations and transforms our understanding of God’s glory. As we continue our Advent study, let’s explore how the humble circumstances of Jesus’ birth establish a pattern of belief, worship, and life that reshapes our Christian walk. Lex Credendi: The Truth We Believe Luke’s nativity accountContinueContinue reading “From Heaven: The Humility of Christ in the Incarnation”
While we celebrate the Incarnation, especially during Advent and Christmas, this belief, worship, and life pattern shape Christian discipleship throughout the year. Each Sunday’s worship recalls this mystery, and each act of service embodies it. Similarly, each moment of prayer assumes it.
Suffering is a sacred communion between the sufferer and God. Meaning will only be found – if it is to be found at all in this life – between the sufferer and their Maker. Our responsibility is to create space and margin for their journey. To do so is to walk alongside, to trust the work of the Holy One.
Like early heretics, many digital influencers claim exclusive enlightenment and revelations transcending Scripture. Their toxic teachings have given rise to a new genre – digital folk religion sewn from threads of mystical thought, prosperity gospel, and twisted Scripture assembled into videos designed to go viral.
Confession may seem counterintuitive in our age of self-affirmation. But paradoxically, it is the path to truly knowing God and ourselves. It brings the humility, hunger, and mercy we all deeply crave.
A relationship with no religion is a fantasy – and a religion with no relationship is vanity. The gospel confronts humanity with the inseparable interplay of both. A relationship that informs religious liturgy and a religion that brings continuous remembrance of a transformative relationship.
Worship through song aims to glorify God by proclaiming who He is and giving thanks for the gospel. The result is stirring faith, obedience, and unity among God’s people.
Believers worship in Jesus’ name through his intercession, by his atoning work, modeling his life and teaching, with full anticipation of his return.
Josh Cehulik