A Call to Intimacy
God's desire is for us to be intimate with him, but there is a condition to intimacy. That condition is holiness. The real praises of God come from a kingdom of people who are pursuing holiness...

Man's Programs or God's Presence?
If we take an honest look at our Sunday morning meetings we will find that most of them are geared more toward man than toward God. Man's programs, more often than not, get in the way of God's presence...

Why Do We Worship?
The purpose of our worship however is not to experience the hand of God it is to see the face of God. Worship is for God! He is the giver and the receiver of worship. All true worship has God at its center. It's all about Him...

Sacrificial Praise
Worship doesn't depend on how the worshiper feels but on how great a God he is worshiping. Worship doesn't depend on the outward appearance of the worshiper or his circumstances, but on the greatness of the one who controls the circumstances and the work he has done on the inside of the worshiper...

Worship: A Way of Life
A true worshiper has no life of his own. He has been bought with a price. He has died to the right to have his own needs met in order to meet the needs of his Creator. The true worshiper does not exist for himself, but for his Creator...

Worshiping the Father
True worshipers are not ashamed to show their affection to the Father regardless of who is watching. They are so overwhelmed with his love for them that fear of looking foolish is no deterrent...

Worshiping in Spirit
A true worshiper will have an ongoing relationship with the Holy Spirit. This relationship will produce new worship responses because the Spirit continually gives fresh revelations of the Creator...

Worshiping in Truth
Until the truth God has revealed about himself through his word and his Son becomes truth that is written in our hearts, our worship will be stale and lifeless...

Worship: A Bi-dimensional Experience
As we worship we are joining thousands of other created beings. We are but one small part of creation that is worshiping its creator...

Worship: An Overflow of Revelation
Worship becomes our obvious response when we get a true revelation of the creator. Without a revelation of God it is impossible to worship Him...

Worship is Transforming
Transformation comes as we spend time in God's presence listening, heeding his words and worshiping his person...

Brokenness in Worship
Brokenness is essential when approaching God. Though we may approach him boldly we should never go into his presence presumptuously as though we have earned the right to be there...

Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
There are the "all hymns" churches, the "no hymns" churches, the "hymns-other stuff" churches, then you have the "no music-just voices" churches. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who cares? Just Worship!!...

Worship and Warfare (Part 1)
When we position ourselves as people of praise, decorated in God's holiness, we won't have to shout at the enemy. We need only to address the Father. He will make sure the enemy gets the message...

Worship and Warfare (Part 2)
It could be that this lady saw something I didn't see. All I know is that one minute I was snuggled in the Father's arms and the next minute all my thoughts were turned to Satan. In my humble opinion Satan got exactly what he wanted...

Worship and Reverence
Are we too familiar with God? Do we haphazardly approach him as if he were common? Should we expect God to manifest his glory if we do not give him the honor and reverence due his name? We cannot expect God to permit us to come into his presence with an attitude of disrespect...

Is God Hungry?
Do you think God ever has hunger pains? God is self-existent and does not need any outside source to assist him in sustaining life. However, though he is not physically dependant on food, there is a burning hunger in God that he actively seeks to satisfy...

The Fountain of Satisfaction
In many churches ritual has taken the place of repentance and righteousness; works have taken the place of true worship. We have become more concerned with preserving our dignity that we have with praising our Deity...

The Glory of God
The church is desperate for the glory of the Lord to once again fill the temple. When his glory comes, his manifest presence, people change. Once we have experienced the wonder of his glory we will be ruined to everything we have known as church...

The Restoration of David's Tabernacle (Part 1)
David's tabernacle was erected in a conspicuous place; Mount Zion. All who entered the city could see the glory of God and hear the praises of God. That is what our praise and worship accomplishes; it takes a huge God that seems so far away to some folks and brings him nearer for them to see. We do the magnifying, he does the drawing...

The Restoration of David's Tabernacle (Part 2)
The restoration of David's tabernacle is the restoration of kingdom worship and authority. As the church learns and flows in the proper order of kingdom worship and authority we will see the fall of Babylon (this world's system)...

Abandoned Worship
Athletes have a phrase they often use to describe their intensity of play. It is "Leave it all on the field." The idea is to give it all you've got. All the conditioning, weight lifting and studying the play book have brought you to game time...

The Power of Song
Song influences the soul in ways unrealized by spoken or written words. Song contains the power to not only change attitudes, but influence actions. The forces behind many of these songs are aware of their power and many listeners have succumbed to their bondage...

The Dynamics of Corporate Worship
Corporate worship should never be hurried. Pliny the younger wrote to the emperor Trajan that the first century Christians would frequently worship far into the night singing chorus after chorus for hours at a time...

Praising God for His Mercy
Are we willing to look foolish to make it clear to the world that we are praising the God of our affections? Have we really understood God's merciful kindness toward us?...

The Pleasure of Worship
It is God's desire that we experience the pleasure of his presence. He finds pleasure in filling us and visiting us with his presence. So, who gets pleasure from our worship? Both the Father and us...

Contemporary or Traditional?
The style of worship music we use is not the stimulus that moves the heart of God. It is our willingness to suffer for the cause of Christ and be obedient to his call on our lives. The question of authentic worship is not, "Do we use contemporary or traditional music?" but rather, "Are we willing to die?"...

The Center of Worship
The greatest miracles occur each time God takes a filthy, rotten heart and makes it clean; all because of the blood of Jesus. And if what Jesus did on the cross doesn't cause us to worship him with abandonment then we are at least one step removed from the center of worship...

Thanksgiving in Worship
In modern day worship services there is a popular trend of lifting and even waving hands. I dare say many people who express their worship in this manner do so without a clue as to what it represents. Many do it just because it's popular, but doing something because it's popular doesn't make it worship...

Chosen to Proclaim
We are to publish the praises or excellencies of him who called us. The word excellencies comes from the word excellence which means the state, quality or condition of excelling; superiority, or pre-eminence. Our means of publication is not only what we say or write but also how we live...

Run Don't Walk!
We must pursue God with the intent purpose of catching him. We must be thirsty for God alone and realize that his right hand (power) is the only thing which sustains and satisfies our soul. And we must be willing to express or display our passion for his person and presence...