A gracEmail subscriber writes, "I like your way of using the great church families to emphasize the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in worship. Would you spell that out again."
I once described my home congregation here in Houston, Texas as "tilted toward the liturgical," and a reader asked what that meant.
There were many refreshing aspects to the 2005 Annual Pepperdine University Bible Lectures which I attended last week.... But perhaps the greatest blessing of all is the worship involving 6,000 voices ... singing praises both classical and contemporary.... That was the setting this year for a poignant personal scene that lifted my spirit heavenward and sent me home full.
A gracEmail subscriber asks whether believers assemble on Sundays (or at other times) for their own benefit or for God's benefit.
God most high, God most nigh (two gracEmails)
In Isaiah 66:1-2, the prophet reveals two realities about God. Theologians speak of these truths as the divine "transcendence" and "immanence." God is so far away, in one sense, yet he is also so very near. He is simultaneously "God most high" and "God most nigh."
A gracEmail subscriber writes that all believers outside his group are lost and that their worship counts for nothing . . . because God seeks worshippers who worship Him in truth. He says that means following a precise New Testament pattern of external details which his own fellowship (and likely no other) . . . follows.