Worship

Experiencing God through worship has presentationally changed over time, but elementally remained the same. To understand where contemporary worship is going, it’s helpful to understand what it is and when it began. The charismatic movement birthed this style of worship known for a more casual setting. Leaders take the stage and utilize technology to connect more relevantly.

The words to “It Is Well with My Soul” live on, inspiring millions to hope that pain has a purpose, that death is temporary, and that faith can carry you through your worst nightmare.

We much remind our own generation and those to come after us why “worship is worth it” regardless of whether we feel like it or the state of the times makes us doubt His presence.

Listening to the lyrics in Brandon Lake's songs can inspire us to worship by reminding us of our need for God, encouraging us to open up to Him, and giving us language for our prayers. Allow these lyrics to stir your heart to worship today!

Our enemy will wait, and scheme, and hunt for any sign of weakness in our lives. It shouldn’t come as any shock that he’ll try to sabotage our worship.

In the church culture today, worship has become an enterprise. I often wonder if we have made worship nothing more than a musical genre and have missed the heart of worship? If this is the case, then what was meant to be God-honoring and spirit-enriching has become something that God never intended it to be.

You can make a shift in a moment. You can change the direction of your attention back to God. You can go from heavy to light. From beaten down to filled up. From worry to worship.

Worship is a lifestyle for born-again Believers. But for this article, we’ll focus on one aspect of worship, as it relates to our musical response to God’s revealed glory.

Here are five surprising signs your church might be getting worship wrong.

Hard times come to everyone, but for believers, the journey through life’s dark valleys looks very different. Your ability to triumph amid adversity is going to start with your determination to “walk by faith and not by sight.”

Remind your grieving heart that worship is not exclusive to your Sunday morning gathering. You can worship the Lord in your heart as you weep under the covers of your bed by surrendering to his will. You can worship the Lord as you remember your loved one and thank God for the time you had together. Acknowledging that he is your provider in a season of loss can be an act of worship.

Nothing can replace spending time in prayer and studying the Word of God when dealing with anxiety. But worship music can help people connect with Scripture and Biblical truth in a unique way.

Raise your hand if you were raised on Christian radio music and nothing else! As Christians, we often shun worldly secular music, and indeed some of it celebrates sinful habits and attitudes that we should avoid. But can secular songs, in fact, turn our hearts to worship the true God?

As the church, do we worship our own emotions or God? And how are we to worship in Spirit and in Truth?

The importance of praising God is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Praising God means telling or otherwise expressing how wonderful and great we believe God is and how much we love Him.