Steps to Blessing: Step 2: Recognize, Part 2
How do we get ourselves to stop being so uppity before God? How do we make ourselves realize our own spiritual poverty that we might inherit the kingdom in all its power and glory? The answer, of course, is that we cannot. Before you can receive spiritual fullness, you have to realize that you need it.
Steps to Blessing: Step 2: Recognize, Part 1
People today want to be spiritual. They want to get in touch with a higher power, they believe in transcendence, they want connection with something out there. But Jesus says we must realize we are not spiritual at all.
Steps to Blessing: Step 1: Listen
We need to recapture the idea of the power and authority of Jesus' Word in church life. That is what will feed people; that is what will grow people. And the lack of it is why we have nominal Christianity—people aren't being fed.
Confess, Part 2
Atonement is made at the point of confession. When we sin, grace abounds. Where we fail, mercy thrives. When we are broken, healing comes. God's grace and mercy comes to the point of our real need and brings healing.
Confess, Part 1
When you have a small god, people look big. You fear being open about who you are because you care about what others think. The only way to have people be real about who they are is to have them be real about who God is. As you center your life on God, you find fulfillment, integrity, and authenticity.
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Mountain
Consumeristic Christianity finds people choosing a different church just because they don't like the music. When we talk about worship, our goal is to forget about the technicalities of music and actually worship God.
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Temple, Part 2
What do you think of when you think of church? Perhaps you just can't see that it's going to make any real difference in the world in the times we live in. Sometimes we compartmentalize God from the rest of our lives. But church is a mission to the world.
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Temple, Part 1
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Temple, Part 1
The Book of Chronicles: Finding a Compass for Your Life, Part 2
Worship is only biblical worship when, at its heart, is a confession of sin and a reception of the forgiveness of sin by a focus on Christ and his cross. Josh Moody teaches us more on the God Centered Life.
The Book of Chronicles: Finding a Compass for Your Life, Part 1
Part of the fruit of idolatry in our culture is a disdain for gathering in worship at the house of God. Some think nothing of disparaging church by rarely attending in person. We think that our resources of time, talent, and treasure should go to something else besides God's house.