If worship—however well intentioned—gets God wrong, it will produce a misguided people and be judged. The Book of Amos begins with the Lord roaring from Jerusalem, from the temple on Zion (1:2).

The Rev. Mike Ruffin recalls a Buddist column that said it didn't matter which God you worship, but it does matter.

As Richard Rohr puts it, we have to be careful, because we will always become the God we worship. Our prayer, our devotion, our praise—these rewire us. They enable us to see, hear, and think in new ...

In John 4, Jesus said, “God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth” (vs. 24). This verse is a powerful reminder of what God desires from us.

Lastly, we are not finite beings but eternal beings whose great potential our Father and our Savior most perfectly know. Worship isn’t for God. It’s for us.

If God had no power, we might still ponder its existence, but the churches, temples, and mosques would likely sit empty. Worship, it seems, thrives where power and presence collide.

But then, in 1956, at the height of the Cold War, and in an effort to distinguish ourselves from those godless communists over in Russia, the motto was changed to “In God We Trust.” ...

We worship a God who wants to be recognized for who he is. My prayer is that the church will grow in this area—seeing ever deeper and truer songs—and leading worship services that help us to ...

Instead, as we see elsewhere in Hosea, God calls us back from our wayward paths, not toward the glitter of silver and gold, but to steadfastness, to loyalty, to honesty, to humility.

“Never say never, I suppose, since it’s possible AI may yet be of use for us in some way in the church, but for now we won’t be using it again to generate any components of Sunday morning ...

(RNS) — ‘How Great Is Our God’ has long been one of the most popular worship songs in Christian churches. Since 2020, it’s also become a theme song for Christian nationalist protesters.