Worship as Radical Amazement For the past several weeks I have been working as a pastor alongside a close friend and fellow worship leader Chris Tomlin. They are presently recording their next worship project. Like any other songwriter or lead worshipper, Chris wants songs that…
Forever As modern or post modern or neo-modern as our worship may become, we must take care to put down deep roots in the soil of ancient realities. The Psalms are such soil, rich with the stuff of worship. Take a look at Psalm 136, the text out of which…
The Wonderful Cross For many it was the most powerful moment of the One Day gathering in Memphis, Tennessee. A season of confession and repentance was giving way to a time of pardon and forgiveness. In the gathering clouds one could sense the great cloud of witnesses…
The Joshua Generation (Part 2 of 3) No, not that Joshua! This is Joshua the High Priest during the time of Ezra and Zerubbabel in Zechariah 3. After an inspiring beginning to the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, Joshua's dreams crumbled for 15 long years! Do you know the "divine…
The Discipline Of Lonely Places The multiple tasking pace of the Palm Pilot age (or DayTimer for the luddites) poses a perilous threat to the ministry Jesus would do among us. Clearly our lives are over-scheduled and under contemplated. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places…
Author: J.D. Walt
Psalming: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Worship Have you found your worshipping and praying voice in the Psalms? The Bible is made up of 66 books. For the most part, 65 of those books speak to us. Fourth century Bishop and Egyptian theologian, Athanasius, said the Psalms speak for us. The Psalms…
