Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.
Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.
If you can't worship at the back, you can't worship at the front
The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.
Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.
It's such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. If you look through the Bible, there's a whole host of people who faced up to the glory of God and found themselves facedown in worship. So the album weaves through a theme of reverence, wonder, and mystery in worship, things I feel we really need to grasp more of in our worship expressions. I know that I do!
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God
Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.
If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. [Lat. , Superstitio, in qua inest inanis timor Dei; religio, quae dei pio cultu continetur. ]