
Work and Worship
Work is not a bad thing. I know, we typically think of work as a means to an end – we work for the weekend, we work for retirement, we work to go on vacation – but work is threaded into what it means to bear the image of God.
Work is not a bad thing. I know, we typically think of work as a means to an end – we work for the weekend, we work for retirement, we work to go on vacation – but work is threaded into what it means to bear the image of God.
We’ve all had the experience of seeing the foulness of our sin with unusual clarity, of coming before God’s holiness full of the shame our sin deserves.
Your preferred adjective when thinking about God is the single most important word in your theological vocabulary; and you have a theological vocabulary whether you know it or not.
Whenever we hear someone talk about Hannah from 1 Samuel it is usually because of her great trust in the midst of her barrenness.
I read recently that my denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has a total of 16 million members, but on a typical Sunday only 6 million of those members attend their local church’s corporate worship gathering.