Pastoral Guidance Should Help in Establishing Standards for Team, Presentation and Multi-Media
Pastors and worship leaders need to establish guidlines for posture, presentation, and performance issues. Teams do perform but heart and motivation are key. Glorifying the Lord is the priority. Some things that work in a conceret may not be appropriate for worship. Use of multi media in worship should be evaluated based on drawing people into God's presence. How are worship team standards to be implimented in order to cummunicate what is expected in a way that will keep people accountable.
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Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men is Often Spoken and Sung during Christmas Candlelight Service
Even the skeptics cannot deny that the Christmas season is different from all the others. No matter what style of music a person may choose to enjoy the rest of the year, the traditional Christmas Carol breaks through the musical preferences and barriers, to be universally recognized as the most beloved music of all people and of all time.
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Preparing a Bible Reading Plan for Teens
When people first start to read the Bible, most barely get through Genesis, and the majority give up by the time they get to Leviticus. New and long-term need a Bible reading plan, no matter what the age. The Bible deserves attention, and it requires concentration to learn what God wants His people to know.
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Standing in the Light Before God and Man
Hebrews 4:13 teaches that nothing and no one is unseen by God "but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." Accountability keeps people honest and reminded of their commitments, to God first, and to people.
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Believers are Sealed with a Seal that can Never be Broken
The seal of God is the gift of the Holy Spirit, stamped, marked, imprinted within believers, a seal that no one can revoke and that the purpose concerning God' people won't change.
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Sacrificial Worship Requires Caring and Praying for the Less Fortunate
Part of worship's restorative results is reaching out to love the poor, widows, orphans, those disposessed who can in no way repay us. Worship that does not result in serevice is not real worship. How is leadership to balance the worship needs of cross-generational fellowships? Blended worship honoring old and new is one answer.
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Composer Joseph M. Scriven Writes What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Joseph Scriven was living in Canada when he received word from Ireland that his mother was ill. He could not go to be with her, so he wrote a letter of comfort and enclosed one of his poems entitled What a Friend We Have in Jesus. It would be 30 years before it was published as a hymn.
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Christmas Quotations and Wording
A collection of uplifting quotes to celebrate the Christmas season.
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