Psalm 8: A Psalm for Worshipers
Psalm 8 paints a stirring picture of the God who is worthy of our worship …Overflow of the heart manifests in words of adulation and praise to our great God. This is worship.
Psalm 8 paints a stirring picture of the God who is worthy of our worship …Overflow of the heart manifests in words of adulation and praise to our great God. This is worship.
What gets us into heaven isn’t the absence of sin, it’s the presence of Christ.
Only when students have been welcomed by Christ through the gospel and know who they are in him will they even have the desire to welcome others.
I have taken something good—an activity my child is gifted in or a desire for my child to be involved—and turned it into a functional savior.
Believing there is a formula to ensure that our children will follow a path that we deem “good” is to think of ourselves, even unintentionally, as gods.
Just as my son’s misbehavior is not what condemns him, his good behavior will never be what saves him.
Psalm 19 shows us the beauty of an honest, joyful obedience that will sustain us and our teenagers over the long-haul.
When my children taste God’s goodness, they will want more of him. His goodness, not my labors or longings, will be the reason they choose to consume more of him.
Our ministries cannot sit on the throne of our hearts if Jesus is already sitting there.