Monthly Archives: February 2008

Reading to Guard the Heart

From a CJ Mahaney inter­view (empha­sis mine): …I view read­ing and study as one of the most impor­tant ways I can serve the church. So it is not a self­ish act for me to set aside this time. It is really the most effec­tive way I can serve this church, by tend­ing to my soul and […]

Lord’s Supper and the Hungry

For there to be a new cre­ation, the old self must know its weak­ness and die to its own prej­u­dices, tastes, class struc­tures, and per­sonal desires. How can we share this escha­to­log­i­cal feast if we don’t par­tic­i­pate in dis­play­ing God’s future, in which all will be equally fed and we will all join together in […]

Does music get in the way of your worship?

Reflec­tive list of lead­ing ques­tions on wor­ship from Greg Gilbert: Do you get bored when some­one reads a longish pas­sage of Scrip­ture in your church? Do you start wish­ing they’d get on with the music? Do you need music play­ing in the back­ground for the read­ing of Scrip­ture to affect your emo­tions? Does a prayer seem […]