Renewal
The Biblical Practice of Worship
April 2, 2023 • Gregg Parris • Psalm 150
Psalm 150 I. Worship with our regenerated spirit. a. Worship in spirit b. Singing spiritual songs c. Giving thanks by the spirit II. Worship with our renewed mind. a. Worship with intelligent obedience. b. Pray with understanding. c. Praise with understanding. III. Worship with our revived emotions. a. Shouting and clapping hands unto the Lord b. Rejoicing and expressing thanksgiving c. Being silent before the Lord IV. Worship with our rededicated body. a. Kneeling in worship b. Bowing heads c. Raising heads d. Lifting hands e. Waving hands in praise f. Dancing with joy before the Lord
Authentic Worship
March 26, 2023 • Gregg Parris • Psalm 100, Psalm 16:11
Psalm 100 Worship defined: Worship in truth and spirit is experiencing/encountering God. I. Serve God (with praise & adoration) Worship is seeing what God is worth and giving him what he’s worth. Tim Keller I’ve experienced God’s presence most powerfully in worship, often during the singing, I suppose because when we sing to him, we are looking hard in his direction. J.I. Packer Christian worship is the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take place in human life. Karl Barth The world can be saved by one thing and that is worship. For to worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. Archbishop William Temple II. Serve people (with His sufficiency) In His presence is fullness of joy. Psalm 16:11
The Music of Heaven
March 19, 2023 • Gregg Parris • Mark 2:21–22, 1 Corinthians 1:28–29
Mark 2:21-22 “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” St. Augustine I. Revival is God-breathed not program planned. II. You really cannot stop something that you didn’t start. God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. I Corinthians 1:28-29
Let the River Flow
March 5, 2023 • Gregg Parris • John 4:35, Romans 5:20, John 4:34–42
John 4:34-42 Three Trends: 1. Woke is making people, in general, miserable. 2. Parents and others are getting angry with school boards and other politicians over what they are doing to our children. 3. There is coming, and now is, a youth “backlash” against woke culture. Revival is birthed in the womb of humility and brokenness without which you will never personally receive. Question: Would you have felt comfortable with the 120 in the upper room on the day of Pentecost? Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. John 4:35 But where sin does abound, grace does much more abound. Romans 5:20