This week’s book of the week is Andrew Hill’s “Enter His Courts with Praise!” This treatment is a thoroughly biblical study of worship. Looking at how worship was prescribed in the Old Testament, Hill attempts to give guidelines for New Testament worship. Top 5 Ideas: “For our purposes Shaper best captures the idea and ideal of worship when he characterizes the event of worship …
During The Perfect Gift series, I was honored that so many people have told me that God used the “Mighty God” message on Dec. 14 in their lives. It’s simple why it impacted you: when we lift Jesus up, everything else comes into perspective. Since I preached it three times, the conclusion was a little different each time, but I tried …
We have experienced some problems with the website over the last few weeks, but now the sermons are back up and things should be normal. Go to northsidebc.org and you can listen to the latest messages and even the message from Christmas Eve!
Happy Saturday. I wanted to encourage you to make sure you make it to North Side tomorrow for the new sermon series, “What Happens in Vegas.” I have been anticipating this sermon series for over 32 months. In a brainstorming session back in the summer of 2006, the idea for this series was mentioned. We all loved the idea, but …
This week’s bad church sign states: “Welcome Semi-Annual Worshipers.” This sign take around Christmas time is speaking to those people who only come to church semi-annually: Christmas and Easter. In an attempt to convict them for their attendance that Sunday, I guess they decided to sarcastically thank them for coming. While people who only come to church twice a year …
“The key ingredient for inspiring this participation in corporate worship and life-style of praise to God and service to others is personal piety and private devotion to God.” -Andrew Hill in Enter His Courts with Praise! In this quote, Hill proved to be able to move from the liturgical side of worship to the personal side of worship. His concept …
This Sunday, we are starting a new series at North Side called, “Sticks and Stones.” History behind the idea: Jeff and I had planned all of 2008’s teaching last year, but due to the campaign and other church events, we decided to scratch some of our series and leave them in a goodie bag for future use. That meant that …
When we decided that the series and church emphasis was going to be entitled “Now,” I wanted to write a song that could serve as a sermon intro video, a recap song, and an intro on the CD. I didn’t want to write a song that was cheesy. I didn’t want to force the song. But I knew I wanted …
The song, “Make Me Holy,” is a song that I wrote probably a year and a half ago. It was one of those songs that was birthed out of my personal quality times with God. In my own desire for holiness, I felt like I kept coming up short. I wanted two specific things in my life: Consistency Obedience By …
As we were praying and planning months ago over the Now Campaign, we knew that our church was going to address aggressively a few issues, but one of those issues has a special burden on our staff’s heart right now: the family. As we began to look at what our staff addresses most weeks – the counseling sessions, the ministry …
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