What Should Our Corporate Worship Gatherings Do?
"Our worship should show the face of Jesus to those who have gathered and to those who need to gather to worship Him."
Bryan Chapell, from Christ Centered Worship
Posts by Josh Starkey
Preparing for Sunday, 6/9/13
Hey guys!Here's a quote for you to think about as you prepare for corporate worship tomorrow morning. We often come to church on Sunday expecting the wrong things. Ponder this:
We're prone to get this backwards: [w]e come to worship thinking that we're somehow giving to God, and we subtly...
Preparing for Sunday, 5/26/13
Hey guys,as we're thinking about church tomorrow, here are a few things to (hopefully) help our hearts and minds get into the right frame, so we're ready to make the most of the time together!1. We have communion in service tomorrow, as we do almost every month on the last Sunday. As Jordan...
Don't View A Worship Leader Like A Priest
We treat our worship leaders as priests, expecting them to lead us into God's presence in a way that is inaccessible apart from their charisma, emotion, and music. Every time we credit a worship leader with 'leading us into God's presence,' we are anointing them as priests, and crediting them...
Preparing for Sunday, 4/21/13!
Hey guys, hope you'll be there with us tomorrow. Hebrews 10:23-25 says,
"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting...
Preparing for Sunday, 3/17/13
Heya folks,Hope you have a chance to think ahead to tomorrow's church gathering. Jordan will be preaching on
Corinthians 11:2-16, on "Clarifying the Value of Roles." Follow the link to read the passage, and prepare to be an "expository listener" during the sermon tomorrow...
Preparing for Sunday, 3/3/13
Hi guys,
Here's the low-down on tomorrow's church gathering. Jordan will preach from 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, on "Exposing Idolatry." This preaching series has been great, and continues to take us into deeper understanding of the Gospel of Jesus, and how the Gospel can and should play out...
Sacrificing For Good Church Music
I wrote this post a couple weeks ago for my other blog - wanted to give it a trial run, and have a few chances to read through it before I posted it here. This post took me months of thinking and processing, and talking this stuff through with several people before putting it in writing...
Preparing for Sunday, 2/17/13!
Hey everybody!You can prep for our Sunday morning gathering by doing the following:
Read and meditate on the preaching passage, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, either in your Bible or here. Read through the passage a few times, and try to really get into what God is revealing about Himself...
Build One Another Up In Corporate Worship
The following is from a book review I wrote for The Life of God in the Soul of the Church by Thabiti Anyabwile. Hope it's helpful. His chapter, called "Sing To One Another" is great, and talks about how the popular idea of a "personal worship experience" in a church gathering is a very...