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  <a href="/blog/blog/60326/a-biblical-balance">A Biblical Balance</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">A biblically balanced view of worship must take into account both God's transcendence and his immanence, his exaltation and his nearness, his majestic holiness and his unmeasurable love. This balance is not always easy to maintain. Churches that focus on divine transcendence are in danger of making God appear distant, aloof, unfriendly, unloving, devoid of grace. Churches that focus on God's immanence sometimes lose sight of his majesty and purity, his hatred of sin, and the consequent seriousness of any…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/60326/a-biblical-balance">Read more</a></span></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2010-02-15T08:39:19-08:00" title="February 15, 2010 08:39">02/15/2010</span></p>

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  <a href="/blog/blog/58256/christ-centered-worship">Christ-centered Worship</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">If you worship Christ as the CREATOR of everything, every cosmic speck across billions of light years of trackless space, the Creator of the textures, shapes and colors that dazzle our eyes: if you worship Christ as the SUSTAINER of all creation, who by his word holds the atoms of your body and this universe together; if you worship him as the GOAL of everything, that all creation is for him; if you further worship Christ as the RECONCILER of your soul—then you worship the God of the Bible. Anything less…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/58256/christ-centered-worship">Read more</a></span></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2010-02-03T03:20:53-08:00" title="February 03, 2010 03:20">02/03/2010</span></p>

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  <a href="/blog/blog/59516/the-importance-of-thanksgiving">The Importance of Thanksgiving</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">The importance and spiritual benefits of thanksgiving in our prayer life cannot be overemphasized. The Bible tells us God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Buth the question is, How do you become humble? It is done by being thankful! A good rule is to be careful (worried) for nothing (Phil 4:6), be prayerful in all things (1 Thess 5:18), and be thankful for anything. It was the sink of thanklessness that caused the ancient world to plunge into the terrible depths of sexual…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/59516/the-importance-of-thanksgiving">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">Supplication for pardon, with humble and ingenuous confession of guilt, forms both the preparation and commencement of right prayer. For the holiest of men cannot hope to obtain anything from God until he has been freely reconciled to him. God cannot be propitious to any but those whom he pardons. Hence it is not strange that this is the key by which believers open the door of prayer, as we learn from several passages in The Psalms. David, when presenting a request on a different subject, says, "Remember…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/59231/the-key-to-the-open-door-of-prayer">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/blog/blog/55842/m-l-king-jr-a-pastoral-prayer-1956">M. L. King Jr. - A Pastoral Prayer (1956)</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank thee for this golden privilege to worship thee, the only true God of the universe. We come to thee today, grateful that thou hast kept us through the long night of the past and ushered us into the challenge of the present and the bright hope of the future. We are mindful, O God, that man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of things, and humanity is not God. Bound by our chains of sins and finiteness, we know we need a Savior. We thank thee, O God, for the…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/55842/m-l-king-jr-a-pastoral-prayer-1956">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">"What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do?" (James 2:14-16)<br><br>
You've seen the pictures of the devestation. You've heard heart-wrenching stories. In our world, with the constant bombardment of need,…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/58669/haiti-it-s-time-to-pray-and-take-action">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness, the nourishment of the mind with his truth, the purifying of the imagination of his beauty, the opening of the heart to his love, the surrender of the will to his purpose.<br><br>
William Temple<br>
(a short biographical sketch on William Temple can be found here: <a href="http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/61.html" target="_new">justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/61.html</a>)<br><br></div>
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  <div class="message">"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship."<br><br>
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  <div class="message">Prayer can no more be divorced from worship than life can be divorced from breathing. If we follow his impulse, the Holy Spirit will always lead us to pray. When we allow him to work freely, he will always bring the Church to extensive praying. Conversely, when the Spirit is absent, we will find excuses not to pray. We may say, "God understands. He knows I love him. But I'm tired... I'm so busy... It's just not convenient now..." When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/58103/prayer-and-worship">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">NEW YEAR<br><br>
O LORD,<br>
Length of days does not profit me except the days are passed<br>
in thy presence, in thy service, to thy glory.<br>
Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides, sustains,<br>
sanctifies, aids every hour,<br>
that I may not be one moment apart from thee,<br>
but may rely on thy Spirit<br>
to supply every thought,<br>
speak in every word,<br>
direct every step,<br>
prosper every work,<br>
build up every mote of faith,<br>
and give me a desire<br>
to show forth thy praise,<br>
testify thy love,<br>
advance thy kingdom.<br>
I launch…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/57746/a-puritan-prayer-for-the-new-year">Read more</a></span></div>
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