How does praising God impact our life? Bring about real change in their our day-to-day?
Psalm 95 shows us that Joyous praise flows naturally into humble obedience
How does praising God impact our life? Bring about real change in their our day-to-day?
Psalm 95 shows us that Joyous praise flows naturally into humble obedience
There may be times in the Christian life that we feel we may tension between our need to fully rely on God, and our need to obey his word. How do we follow his will for our life while also depending upon him and trusting that he will provide for us? This was something that the people of God in Nehemiah’s day had to learn, and something each one of us needs to also.
Exodus 24:1-18William Tyndale said that the gospel is good news that “makes a man’s heart glad and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy”. But what is so good about the good news? And how can we grasp that more? And how can we recover our joy in it if we’ve lost it?
Exodus 20:22-23:33 ’What has happened to all your joy?’ The Galatian believers to whom Paul wrote those words had a wrong understanding of the Law. It had robbed them of their joy and ran the risk of robbing them of their salvation. What is the relationship of the Christian to the Law? It’s vital we get this right.
Isaiah 50:4-11The question “Are you a Christian?” is not a terribly helpful one nowadays. According to the 2011 UK census, 59% of the population would say they are, but what…
Isaiah 50:4-11 The question “Are you a Christian?” is not a terribly helpful one nowadays. According to the 2011 UK census, 59% of the population would say they are, but what they mean by that varies hugely. A more helpful, and more biblical, question is “Are you a disciple of Jesus Christ?”
There’s a huge hunger in our society to have authentic spiritual experience, but there’s little consensus about how we go about it. Will it come about through emptying my mind? Or through connecting with the natural world? Or perhaps through art or through worship music? Hear Jesus’ teaching about how to experience God.