Worship Definitions

Here’s some different worship definitions… I thought they were nice to read slow and digest What is worship?  (from worship.com) Louie Giglio: Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live. Josh Riley: Worship is everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do,...

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There’s hope

There’s hope

Today flying out of Kilgali Rwanda i was thinking back on a John Mayer song “waiting on the world to change” i know! But I feel that way alot. I look at where our economy, Medicare, jobs, social security, and other government programs are heading and feel like there’s nothing I can do, you know? Even our politicians are spending the next year on how to get re-elected more than...

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia

I’m in a Country half way around the world with over 500 church leaders/NGO’s/and business men or women in Addis Ababa.  Wow.  Its always been a cool city to me because I know its the city that inspired BONO to write where the streets have no name.  I’ve had the privileged of leading the worship with an african team for the first ever Global Leadership Summit in Ethiopia and...

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The God I Want

I’m reading through NT Wrights “For All God’s Worth” and nailed today by chapter 3.  The God I want.  Basically Wright is talking about a book title he read and thinking about the fact that we all make an idol of god.  We desire a god that will give us all we want.  We become like the pagans who have a god for sex, money, and success.  Are you as guilty as I in your...

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Filling up

The single greatest act we can do (statistically speaking) to connect with God and grow closer to Him is simple.   READ HIS WORD.  that’s right.  Read the bible.  Have you done it today?  Isn’t it crazy that we all know this.  It makes perfect sense.  Willow Creek  ( a big church in Chicago) did a huge study of their people called Reveal.  They spent millions of dollars to...

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Thoughts on Success

So I was talking to a friend the other day about what faithfulness looks like. We were talking about Christian culture as we know it today and can’t help but feel the trappings of what many call success. Like talking about numbers. I believe God is big on numbers; don’t get me wrong. He even named a book in the bible numbers. But I think it has less to do with the thought of how...

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