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God of This City

Thanks to my man Jimmy S's recommendation, I saw this video.  If you've got 3 minutes (and you must because your already wasting time on my blog), watch this video.  You won't sing this song the same way again (i.e. minus a broken heart.)

The story behind God of this City

Jesus is my rap star

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Contrasting shallow and deeper

As we enter into 10 weeks of teaching and soaking in the concept of Deeper, I'm soberly eager (no idea if that's possible.)  I spent some time today making a list contrasting shallow spirituality with deeper pursuit.  Nothing here is new but it helps me to contrast things in order to understand them.  I like to ask the question "how is this different from that?"  By the end of the list I was challenged and convicted to go Deeper.  (If you have adds/edits, feel free to comment them in...)

 

Shallow Spirituality	Deeper Pursuit
Has arrived	Is searching
Full of answers	Full of wonder
Is doing pretty good	Feels constantly unfinished
Lives primarily off of other people’s God discoveries and moments	Invests time into exploration with the hope of God discoveries and moments
Measures expectations to avoid spiritual disappointment	Lives with the tension of expectancy and disappointment
Hopes to become a saint, maybe someday	A saint who groans against the grip and depth of sin
Hopeful about performance	Hungry for Grace
Loves to be right	Rightly loves
Fears mystery and moves away from it	Fears mystery and moves toward it
Lives off of a good faith history	Lives off of a moment-by-moment decision to say “yes” again
Doesn’t count costs and disengages when things get tough	Counts costs daily, gulps and moves forward
Seeks God in spiritual places	Seeks God in every place
Has only a few hiding places	Destroys every hiding place
Resists being challenged	Humbly receives challenge looking for God-words in it

 

 

 

Free worship album

Already a fan of Phil Wickham.  This album brings it to a new level.  Free download of a great live worship album called Singalong.  Follow this link, give your email and name, download and enjoy worshiping Jesus.

Worship music

What part of a worship gathering has the greatest potential for causing men to tune out (besides boring preaching)? 

In my estimation, its the worship.  Music and lyrics that are overly drippy and love-oriented toward Jesus can make many men squirm--me included.  At Multi-Site Exposed last week, Driscoll called them "Prom Songs to Jesus."  Unfortunately, I know what he means.  I've at times found myself humming the words because I can't bring myself to sing certain lyrics to the King of Kings.

Alan Hirsch posted this video interview with Matt Redman on the topic of worship music lyrics.  What do you think?