Posts Tagged worship

An apology for wild expression

In most of American Christianity and society, it is encouraged that public expression should be carefully measured and crontrolled. Shouting, crying, wild movements, and other physical expression of emotion is best avoided as it shows someone who is not well-controlled,

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Is God all I need?

The Chris Tomlin song “More than Enough” has been in my head since it came out. Even though that was several years ago, I’m still interacting with and evaluating it.

It started as an expression of frustration with Christian people …

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True Worship

True WorshipMy dad recently put this question to me: “What is good praise and worship?”  I then asked if he meant in a church service or in general.  His response: “Both.”  I’ve been thinking about this a lot since.

First, I …

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Church Grading Criteria

Have you ever thought about why you like a church or why you don’t? When I was living on the road, I decided to grade every church I went to. I started out by giving letter grades and including comments and then went back and graded on a 0 to 10 scale for each criteria and averaged the results for a score. I attended 50 churches ranging from 5 people to 5000. Here was the criteria I used to grade them.

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