Blessed Be Your Name I recently wrote a little book on worship, "The Unquenchable Worshipper". The title chapter looks at a kind of worship that endures through every situation. A praise that overcomes the storms of life, and cries out ...
Befriended For me, the friendship of the Lord will always be one of life's great mysteries. How can it be that the King above all Kings would extend a hand of friendship to the likes of me? Recently, a friend pointed out to me that the word "befriended"…
Wonderful Maker I recently spent a few hours on a plane reading through the whole of the book of Job. I don't think I've ever read the whole thing in one sitting before. I was prepared for the suffering and anguish contained in the book. But something else took me…
A Pattern of Worship Psalm 95 is probably one of the best known of the Psalms amongst lead worshippers. For one thing, quite a few of the worship songs we sing today borrow some lines from this ancient song. It doesn't make clear in the Psalm itself who wrote it, yet in…
Lord, Let Your Glory Fall The song "Lord, let your glory fall" is taken from the book of 2 Chronicles, chapters 5 to 7. I think this must be one of the most powerful and inspiring examples of congregational worship in the Bible. The work for the temple had all been done, and…
Author: Matt Redman
Make His Praise Glorious This writer of this Psalm is consumed with the glory of God - so much so that His passionate worship cannot simply be contained within his own heart - it must spill out into evangelistic zeal, and a call to the nations to glorify the Lord.
Gifted Response (We Will Worship You) Two themes run through this song. Firstly, that worship is a 'gifted response'. We cannot do it in our own strength, or offer it by our own merits. Anything we ever bring to God belongs to Him in the first place. If we sing a song to Him, he gave us…
Author: Matt Redman
Can A Nation Be Changed? Sometimes in the Bible, prayers of intercession take the form of a question. Take the Psalms, for example. On quite a few occasions the writer gets so desperate before God that their prayers for help turn into questions, crying out for an answer to…
