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How important is truth in the songs we sing? Do the words we sing really matter or do they just fade away overtime? Bob shares his perspective on the validity and purpose of words and music as it relates to God's truth.

It's an interesting experience to encounter life's flat tires that affect your outlook on future events. Sometimes we often lose our love for the things that we are currently involved. When our flame grows faint, God is near to rekindle the fire. All we need is to draw near to Him. Let's listen to John as he takes us down one of his journeys to offer us insight on not losing our flame and love for worshiping God.

What does it mean to have our worship go beyond the typical 20 minutes of singing in a Sunday service? This is where we find our relationship with God to be a lifestyle of worship rather than an event. Read more to hear Paul's heart on what it means to model worship in the day-to-day.

As the worship leader, we have a great opportunity to bring life to any situation. We do so by reflecting the image of Jesus through loving and affirming words.  

If we're actually going to worship, our attention is to be focused on Him. We may make fine and true—even biblical—declarations about ourselves, but if it is not focused toward the Lord, dare we suggest that it is worship?

Style certainly matters to people! This brief article examines the heart of the matter.

Matt Redman describes why lyrics/words are not merely enough in revering God in worship. Enjoy a bit of fun and insight as Matt shares his heart regarding our words in worship and in song.

Star Trek (the First Generation with Captain James T. Kirk) gives us a terrific way to think about God’s position outside the realm of created time. If you remember, Captain Kirk, ever in a predicament that he must solve or else lose the Starship Enterprise and its entire crew, often spoke of the “time and space continuum"  In their sci-fi world, some interruption may occur that thrust them into a time warp and they had just one hour to resolve this problem. In this way, time can be thought of as a line, a continuum that has a beginning, middle, and an end. God, the Creator of time as we know it, stands outside or apart from this continuum and can see it all. He is equally “present" to us, to the people of centuries past, and to all peoples and time in the centuries to come. Hebrews 13:8 declares that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

If the Bible does not specifically say that something is acceptable in worship, does that mean it's unacceptable? Let's take a look...