Sermon: The Heart of the Matter

Hey all!!!

So, at my church, we recently got a new head pastor, and he’s so dynamic and powerful in the pulpit, I love hearing him speak! He gave a very interesting sermon today about worship.

He used the song “Heart of Worship” as an introduction to his sermon, which was titled “The Heart of the Matter“, and drew from John 4:7-24, the story of Lydia at the well, to address the point that Lydia like so many of us changes the subject when talking to someone if we are uncomfortable with the subject matter. We as humans tend to abandon the deeper, more layered subject, and trade it for a shallow and surface subject, such as when Christians are asked about spiritual well being, they tend to change the subject to that of worship. He believes that the subject of worship is used as a diversionary tactic, a vehicle used so that Christians don’t have to, or are not forced to examine thier own lives in Christ. 

Litergy in the Latin means “Service of the people” – worship service.

He went on to define worship by what a theologian had said (I’m sorry, I can’t remember his name )

 

Worship: “True worship is putting your minds attention and heart’s affection on the Lord; praising Him for who He is, and what He has done.”

He then went on to ask the congregation a challenging question: When was the last time you really worshiped the Living God? This question perked my interest, because I thought that going to church was worshiping God. He goes on to say that the action of worship is something ingrained in humanity, that at the very essence of humanity, there is a need to worship something, and he said that was why we fall in love. I thought this was an interesting point! I really loved hearing him speak! It was here that he drew from Colossians 1:16. Then he used a great allegory, the arrow and the target. He made the point that it is impossible to put your arrow in the bullseye of the target if you don’t know what the target is. He then said “Humans pull from the quiver of the soul until it is empty” and that humanity tends to send arrows at false gods and idols because of misdirection of their attention.

He went on to quote Psalms 22:3, “The Lord is enthroned upon the praise of his people…” and he encouraged us to pour out the best of our energies for God, and avoid worshiping false gods. He also cautioned us that True worshipers don’t worry about the how-to, but the who.  He left us with a quote his choir director used to tell him at his old church, “you can sing a lie just as easily as you can tell a lie.”  And he told us that worship is the opportunity for Christians to re-center our lives on God through fellowship and praising His Holy Name.

All in all, it was a very well done sermon, and it truely made me examine what I had been enthroning in my own life, and I am challenging myself this week to work harder for enthroning God in my own life.

In God’s love.

Lucky

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SEC Football!!!

SEC Football Saturday!!!

I know I just posted to my other blog a few minutes ago, but I just got this new app on my iPhone, and I wanted to try it out. Kentucky is beating Georgia right now with 38-35, and Georgia ha third and goal from the twelve. The LSU/ Alabama game just started now too, and I just gotta say, I love SEC football!!!
Tonight at eight, the Gators play Vanderbilt’s Commadores, and if we win this game we’ll be top of the SEC East!
Gergia just scored and it’s 42-38, Georgia with 1:46 in the 4th.

Gator Football!!!

Hey, what’s up guys? Its Lucky!

I know its been a bit, but what ever. Sometimes, I just have the urge to write, you know???

 

I cried when Barack Obama was elected President. I’m not gonna lie. I was so proud, I prayed to God, praising him that I had the priviledge to live to see such a historic day. Every day is a journey, and every day is a test that God puts before us.

Speaking of tests, there is this boy in my Mythology class, and I have been trying to minister to him for the past few weeks. I want some advice, I have some, but I wanted to ask you all what your opinions were.

 

Basically, he’s had some experience with Christianity before, and is now an Agnostic, because he had some issues with the church he went to being super clique-y and judgemental. I want to think of some way to minister to him without being pushy, as he said he hated that Christians were always forcing people into belief. I want to basically be a friend to him, and try to minister to him as Christ would, and explain to him that Christ had a big problem with judgemental people, and that it was the church’s fault for not correcting said issue.

Anyway, tell me what you think, comments are appreciated!!!

 

Love you all, And I seriously can’t wait for the Gators to play Vandy tonight!!!!

 

God Bless!!!

PS. Tell me what you guys want to hear about from me…:)

 

Lucky