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                    Worship
Isaac Watts wrote fifty-two books, twenty-nine of them on theology. But he is best remembered for his hymns. He wrote more than seven hundred, and even today the average modern hymnal will have twenty or more of his songs--276 years after they were written. When he died he was reciting one
                    
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                    Contributed by Darren Ethier on Apr 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION
The Call to Worship had just been pronounced starting Easter Sunday Morning service in an East Texas church. The choir started its processional, singing "Up from the Grave He Arose" as they marched in perfect step down the center aisle to the front of the church. The last lady was
                    
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                    Contributed by Darren Ethier on Apr 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHY WORSHIP? 
We need to let go of our intellectual idea of worship and realize there is more to worship than a sermon; we have to let go of our evangelistic notion of worship and reckon with the fact that worship is not primarily directed toward the sinners who need to be converted; we must let
                    
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                    The authenticity of Worship can be discerned if we really knew what was happening in the spiritual realm while we worship. At a certain point in our life, amidst great persecution from the enemy, as we worshipped the Lord with songs of praise and thanksgiving, my wife saw very few angels appearing
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 7, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Christian author and speaker Jill Briscoe said:
We can worry or we can worship. Strangely enough, busy people find it a whole lot easier to worry than to worship. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “HEART OF WORSHIP”
There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    ABRAHAM'S WORSHIP
The Jews have a legend that when Abraham started on his journeys he saw the stars in the heavens and said, "I will worship the stars." But before long the stars set. Then Abraham saw the constellations—the Pleiades and the rest of them—and he said, "I will worship the
                    
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                    STANDING IN WORSHIP
Jesus stands in God’s presence--he stands, because he has trodden death and the power of the Evil One underfoot.  At the end of this struggle, he is the one who stands upright, the one who remains standing.  This standing is also an expression of readiness: Christ is standing
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
                
                
                
                    PRETEND-WORSHIP
Pretend-worship is the picture of a little boy looking up at his dad as a bird lies dead at his feet. His open, palms-up hands are accompanied with the caption at the bottom of the picture: "It wasn't me daddy". But, as we're
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Jul 1, 2012
                
                
                
                    OBSTACLES TO WORSHIP
Don Chapman writes, 
"Recently I visited a church where I had to jump over a few unnecessary hurdles before I finally took my seat in their worship service. There was no sign out front. I drove to the church's location and was surprised not to see a sign. Was I in the right
                    
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                    "True worship is God-centered worship. People tend to get caught up in where they should worship, what music they should sing in worship, and how their worship looks to other people. Focusing on these things misses the point. 
Jesus tells us that true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL:  The Heart of Worship
There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more
                    
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