"worship" Tagged Sermons
Worship Uncovered
After speaking out letters to the seven churches, Jesus causes John to be caught up in a vision of Heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit. As John sees the throne room of God uncovered, a dramatic scene takes place before him. And as we hear John’s account of this spectacular sight, we will be confronted by the magnitude of our God and why our worship of Him matters.
The New Covenant
How do you relate to God? So many people think that they have to embrace a special set of rules in order to get close to God, or others think that they have to make themselves clean and acceptable to God before He will listen to them. Well as the preacher continues to call his people to embrace Christ and not drift back to Judaism, he will unpack how it is we can approach God through Jesus… and how it…
Waiting for Worship
Worship is something that is assumed in the church. You turn up on Sunday and you kind of expect it to happen. During the week you open your bible or bow your head in prayer and you think somehow you will feel something. But all too often worship can seem incredibly dry. As we continue to follow the story of God’s people in the book of Malachi, we will see that worship for them was something that looked alive on…
Worship – the chief end of humanity
Worship is the number one task that God has called us to! And worship informs all the other tasks as well. But so often we get it wrong. Pastor Joe finishes off our doctrine series by looking at 2 common mistakes we make when it comes to how we think about worship… and he will show us just how wonderful true worship can be.
Reckless Devotion
Being sensible is highly valued in our culture and it also seems to be valued in the scriptures in terms of practical wisdom, sober-mindedness and self-control. But we all know of followers of Jesus who have made decisions that our world considers reckless like missionaries heading to persecuted countries to preach an illegal gospel. So what happens when following Jesus looks more reckless than sensible? Pastor Joe examines one encounter when a woman displays reckless devotion to Jesus and what…
More valuable than life
As news of the king’s decree of destruction reaches the ears of the Jewish community in Persia they begin to mourn publicly. Mordecai typifies this response, a response that we will see is a beautiful and genuine act of worship. And yet when he appeals to Esther for help we see a real wrestle in her heart… a bitter and costly dilemma that is a hard pill to swallow. This morning we see a stunning truth that will allow us to…
Community that worships through the gospel
Worship… one of those easily spoken but hard to explain terms that gets thrown about all the time in church. And yet worship is probably the definitive call of God on our lives… He longs for our worship… our devotion… our love… heart, soul and strength! When we think of “an awesome worship time” we normally think of an experience where we feel we connected with God… but the worship that God demands is not about a felt experience of…
Ugly Memory – Beautiful Worship
We don’t really like to think about our sin. I mean we all know that we have sinned but when it comes to worship we like to focus on the fact that we have been forgiven of our sin rather than our sin itself… how can remembering our sin possibly help our worship? In Psalm 38 David write a worship song about his sin and as we look at the beautiful language he uses we will see why this ugly…
How We Sing
In the final message of our singing series Pastor Joe turns our attention to how it is we should sing as a congregation. He looks at the interplay between the truths we believe, the emotions we feel and the responses we express to imagine what our services would be like if we really expressed the gospel in song.
Why We Sing
Week by week we come to church and we stand and sing. It is something we assume will be part of our church experience and therefore it is something we often take for granted. How regularly do you think about why we sing in church? Pastor Joe begins this new series and seeks to answer this question by investigating one of the most important songs in Israel’s history. In this song we discover why it is that God wants His…