40 DAY JOURNEY WITH DIETRICH BONHOEFFER - Day 35
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Thus there remains only one path for those who in following Jesus want to truly serve God in worship, and that is the path of reconciliation with their sisters and brothers.
Thus there remains only one path for those who in following Jesus want to truly serve God in worship, and that is the path of reconciliation with their sisters and brothers.
Worship is prizing God our Father, Jesus our Savior, and our Holy Spirit.
We most truly worship God when we prize Him as the sole object of our heart's desire.
Disciples live with not only renouncing their own rights, but even renouncing their own righteousness. They get no credit themselves for what they do and sacrifice.
Having "finished" Job (as if anyone could) I'm plowing through the Psalms at a blazing pace of approximately one per day. (Of course when I get to #119, I'll definitely stretch it out over several days!) Anyhoo, I have a lot of random thoughts regarding these tasty literary treats... and the more I read the more my head has to stretch to contain them.
Read more: Things I think about when I think about Psalms by Julie Moore
Introduction
Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting after God, eager to grasp at least the outskirts of His ways, the abyss of His love for sinners, and the height of His unapproachable majesty—and it was written by a busy pastor in Chicago!
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It is doubtful if, in 1972, those attending one of Jim Cymbala's worship services in a run-down Brooklyn church imagined…
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One of my all time favorite songs. Sums up the struggle for letting Christ live through me rather than me…
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A video of For My Ashes by Duke Divinity students from 2008. Through its minor chords and rising melody this…
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Loving others is not easy,
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Surprise us with love at daybreak;
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Scripture
Isaiah 57:15 For this is what the high and exalted One says—
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Isaiah 49: 8 This is what the Lord says:
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Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St…
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