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Feelings Are Great Liars. If Christians Worshipped Only When They Felt Like It, There Would Be Precious Little Worship. We Think That If We Don’t Feel Something There Can Be No Authenticity In Doing It. But The Wisdom Of God Says Something Different: That We Can Act Ourselves Into A New Way Of Feeling Much Quicker Than We Can Feel Ourselves Into A New Way Of Acting. Worship Is An Act That Develops Feelings For God, Not A Feeling For God That Is Expressed In An Act Of Worship.

The Latin Words Humus, Soil/earth, And Homo, Human Being, Have A Common Derivation, From Which We Also Get Our Word 'humble.' This Is The Genesis Origin Of Who We Are: Dust - Dust That The Lord God Used To Make Us A Human Being. If We Cultivate A Lively Sense Of Our Origin And Nurture A Sense Of Continuity With It, Who Knows, We May Also Acquire Humility.

The Most Important Thing A Pastor Does Is Stand In A Pulpit Every Sunday And Say, 'let Us Worship God.' If That Ceases To Be The Primary Thing I Do In Terms Of My Energy, My Imagination, And The Way I Structure My Life, Then I No Longer Function As A Pastor.

The Bible Is Not A Script For A Funeral Service, But It Is The Record Of God Always Bringing Life Where We Expected To Find Death. Everywhere It Is The Story Of Resurrection.

I Cannot Fail To Call The Congregation To Worship God, To Listen To His Word, To Offer Themselves To God.