Quote from Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.

We, too, ought to experience God with the totality of our being in worship. Worship services ought to inform the mind intellectually, engage the heart emotionally, and bend the will volitionally. God wants thoughtful worshippers who believe, emotional worshippers who behold, and obedient worshippers who behave. God-centered worship produces people who think deeply about God, feel passionately for God, and live urgently in response to God. Therefore, when we meet God in worship, we should expect a combination of gravity and gladness, depth and delight, doctrine and devotion, precept and passion, truth and love.

Read the whole article, Worship is a Big Deal.

John Piper was asked, “If you could say one thing to the next generation of church leaders, what would it be?”

I think his answer is good for everyone.

Make the Bible the supreme intellectual and emotional authority in your life, for the sake of magnifying Christ in the fullness of his person and his work, so that generation after generation preserves the foundation and the capstone of the glory of God in Christ, and the grace that is the apex of that glory.

Lord, help me to glorify you.

I am poor;
help me to glorify you by contentment.

I am sick;
help me to give you honor by patience.

I have talents;
help me to exalt you by spending them for you.

I have a heart to feel, Lord;
let that heart feel no love but yours,
and glow with no flame but affection for you.

I have a head to think, Lord;
help me to think of you and for you.

You have put me in this world for something, Lord;
show me what it is,
and help me to live according to your purpose.

- Charles Spurgeon

Thanks to Trevin Wax

I love theologically accurate moving worship music.

I listen, then bought, Only  Your Blood from the album Over the Grave from Sojourn music.

If you are on Facebook you can listen to a number of their songs (or their Myspace page).

Simple time management

Productivity in 11 Words

“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.” [Skelliewag via@scottros] Photo bykoalazymonkey.

A good reminder from John Piper,

I encourage you to measure your favorite authors and your favorite quotes by what the Bible teaches and what the Bible includes.

You can read the entire post here.

R. Kent Hughes:

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face.

Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

Disciplines of a Godly Man, p. 139  posted by Justin Taylor

Robertson McQuilkin

It is easier to go to a consistent extreme, than to stay in the center of biblical tension.

I’m not sure where I heard this, but it rings true:

We only do regularly
what we are held accountable for

Therefore–we need accountability!

C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.