Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.