Words on Worship

When an athlete is striving to win a championship, he or she cannot do so without that special intangible attribute called the will.  The athlete must have the will to win, or they will not win. There has to be that certain "want to" that comes from deep within their heart, or a championship is almost impossible to achieve.  Others have referred to this "will" as having the "heart of a champion."  It is with this same mindset that we should approach worshiping the Lord each day.  Jesus says the greatest commandment of all is to worship the Lord with...

Worshiping God simply means loving God, but that is easier said than done.  To love the Lord God with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength requires a great deal of discipline.  We have talked a lot over the past few weeks about worshiping God with a disciplined mind, but how about the will?  Before we can act, we must will.  It all starts here.  The will is the beginning point to which we decide if we will sin or obey.   So any lowering of the principles of your will, leads to justification in your mind, which leads to...

Worship has been defined by theologians over the centuries in hundreds of different ways, and of course, worship is expressed in thousands of different ways each and every day. But, in my opinion, the simplest definition of worship...and perhaps the most profound, came from Dr. Vernon Whaley at Liberty University.   Worship is the one ingredient you will find on every page of the Bible.  It is the one subject in Scripture that is prevalent in every story, with every character, and almost every verse.  Why? Because the one thing we were created to do above all else…is worship God....

We were really created to do just one thing...worship our Creator. This is easier said than done because the object of our worship is so often NOT who it should be.  We get so easily distracted by other things that in many cases, rather than worshiping God our Creator, we begin to worship an object of His creation. Thus begins a sort of worship tug-of-war in our souls. So my question for you to consider today is simply this...who, or what is the object of your worship today?  Well, the only way to answer that is to have the  priority of worship...

We see it in Hollywood stories all the time where seemingly wealthy, successful, young and beautiful stars end up dying in their own misery.  It is truly a sad thing to hear of one who has died hopeless. But the reason so many do is because they have missed the very point of why we exist in the first place.  We exist on this earth for one purpose, to glorify God. We are to know Him and make Him known.  Where we spend our time, what we live for, and how we spend our money are all great indicators of the...