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.
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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.
Why We Can’t Stop Singing About a Crucifixion
Why did the Cross—an instrument of torture reserved for the worst criminals—become something people couldn’t stop celebrating?
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.
We Can Read the Weather But Are We Missing the Kingdom?
Jesus once looked at a crowd of people who had mastered weather forecasting and said something startling: “You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?” They could read clouds but couldn’t recognize that God’s kingdom had arrived in their midst.
Worship That Takes the Long View
When we gather as the church, those who lead worship must point believers to the long arc of God’s work. Christians panic because they have a short view. They unleash vitriol and sometimes violence because of fear, fear that comes from a small view of God’s work in the world. Biblical characters and honorable statesmen have always shared a similar trait: they lived (and sometimes died) for results that would often outlive them. They understood that their role was to be faithful in their generation while trusting God with the outcomes across generations. This should be true for all Christians, and that ideal is rooted in the gospel itself. The gospel teaches us that God’s ultimate victory was won not through political maneuvering or policy reform, but through the cross, an event that looked like defeat but was actually the decisive triumph over sin and death. Before we act out in panic or political rage, we should ask ourselves: Does this serve the gospel? Does this advance the eternal kingdom? Does my response demonstrate trust in the King whose kingdom cannot be shaken?
Worship in Washington: When Praise Interrupted Politics
“Where will the healing of our nation begin? Perhaps it begins exactly where it did in the Capitol Rotunda last night, with worship. Not worship as a political strategy or a cultural statement, but worship as the authentic response of hearts that have been captured by the love of Christ.
Maybe it begins when we stop trying to win arguments and start trying to win hearts through the irresistible attraction of genuine devotion. Maybe it begins when we realize that our most powerful apologetic is our capacity to worship with such joy and freedom that others want to join us.
Maybe it begins when we take seriously the words of Jesus: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:35). And maybe, just maybe, the world is waiting to see what it really looks like when Christians worship together, not despite our differences, but through them, finding in Christ the unity that no earthly division can destroy.
The marble floors of the Capitol Rotunda have witnessed much history. But perhaps they witnessed something new last night: a glimpse of what our nation could become when God’s people remember that our highest calling is to worship the King who has already won the ultimate victory over sin, death, and division.
In a world hungry and in need of healing, maybe worship is both the medicine and the food. Perhaps it’s time to find out.”
Josh Cehulik 