Worship #9 – Worshipping in Arabic When You Don’t Speak It
Lookahead: And, in fact, the byline read, “Carine Bassili shares how God used her viral worship song to break barriers and release healing between Arabs and Jews.”1 She believed that the LORD had instructed her to write a song about the God of Israel. The result was a beautiful Hebrew/Arabic song that came from Psalm…
Worship #8 – Positioned for Worship in the Old Testament
Lookahead: But the song wasn’t totally the focus of the controversy. It was the rendition of the song that seemed to be the issue. One podcaster put a comic spin on some of the remarks which I’ll use because it takes the judgmental sting off. “The church is trying to be too much like the world…he’s there…
Worship #7 – Worship Back in the Day: Heathens and Jesus
Lookahead: I am reminded of one of my favorite movies (Risen, sorry I keep pitching it), in which the Roman tribune, before he goes out on a mission, stops by a small cubbyhole/recess in the limestone-block walls of the barracks. It is a shrine to Mars. In the cubbyhole is a small, patina-layered bronze statue…
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