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Worshiping in Church Or: How To See the Invisible Through the Visible
Our earthly worship environment should help us see what we can’t see. It should strive to imitate its heavenly counterpart, which we glimpse through Revelation. Too often our liturgical are, music and architecture bow to utility and economy, when they should bow to the transcendent. John’s vision inspires us to rethink the ways we design […]
On Worshiping With Our Whole Being — Body and Soul, Pt. 1
God united divinity and humanity in the person of Christ not to free us from our bodies but to redeem them and all creation. God made us with souls and bodies. God wants us to worship him with our whole being—body and soul. Bowing and kneeling, robes, thrones and crowns, white, scarlet and purple, incense, […]
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The Introductions to The Passion of the Christ
The gospels have been described by one 19th century German theologian as “passion narratives with long introductions”. The good news that Christians had to tell–indeed the only news they had to tell–was not that Jesus was a moralist, or a miracle worker, or pro-life, or told some nifty stories. It was that he was God incarnate who […]