Worship

On Worship With Kari Jobe

NRT contributor Marcus Hathcock

karijove1 Worship leader Kari Jobe speaks with NRT contributor Marcus Hathcock in-between sets at Creation Festival Northwest.

Kari Jobe: "People could care less about who you are or what you do; they just want the presence of God."

Texas-based worship artist Kari Jobe is all over the place. The serial tweeter often is found writing about airport mishaps, taxi hijinks and playing shows at vastly different locales across the country from week to week.

WORSHIP: RESTORATION OR REGRESSION?

Steve Crosby

This is about Old Covenant Mindsets & Practices in a New Covenant Church. If prevalent teachings in apostolic and prophetic Christian media are to be believed, our God is more like a reluctant genie in Arabian Nights than a gracious heavenly Father. Sinbad only had to utter a magic phrase to open Ali Baba’s cave. If you believe the teachings, we have to do the charismatic equivalent of climbing up the Scala Santa[1] on our knees to convince God how worthy we are to participate in His great future day, when He releases treasure that He is disinclined to release today. For the believer, Sinbad’s “open simsim”[2] has become, “You must position yourself for the next move of God.”

Measure Those Who Worship

Francis Frangipane

At the end of the age there will be two types of Christians: those who worship in the inner court and those outside the place of intimacy.

Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations" (Revelation 11:1-2).

For whatever else this verse ultimately means, it tells us now that the Spirit of God is measuring worshipers - those individuals whose treasure is in heaven, who abide in the inner court of God’s temple. Beloved, those who truly worship God dwell in a measured and protected place.

Consider: In our world of terrors, pressures and trauma, our only refuge exists in the living presence of God. We must not accept a religion about God instead of the presence of God. If we are to truly dwell in the Divine Presence, one thing perhaps above all others will take us there: We must become true worshipers of God.

The Story of Hillsong's A Beautiful Exchange

Jackie A. Chapman

Hillsongs In the collective expression of a unified church, as the people worship their magnificent Savior, a beautiful exchange happens: the exchange of the cross for sins, the exchange of His life for our freedom. This beautiful exchange is the gospel of Christ and it happens in churches and street corners around the globe. It is the message that lies at the center of Hillsong Church, and it is the meaning behind the new Hillsong LIVE project, A Beautiful Exchange.

The 20th Hillsong LIVE recording, A Beautiful Exchange, captures again the heart and soul of what God is doing locally in the Sydney, Australia church. Hillsong worship leaders Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, Darlene Zschech, Jad Gillies and Ben Fielding, among others, came together with the entire church congregation through the expression of worship to celebrate and seek God.

The Great Bounty of a Generous Man

James Ryle

giver_hands “A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed” (Proverbs 11:25).

For the past several days we have focused on the subject of blessing, with specific attention to Lord’s desire to prosper us and thereby empower us to be a blessing to others. We have discussed and discovered many things, and in it all I trust that you have been enriched in every way.

This post will serve as the closing word on this topic – for now.