Spilt Grape Juice hits many "sacred traditions" we hold dear about church. For example, parents tell their children, "You are going to wear your best clothes to church". When asked about a Sunday activity with friends from work, many Christians respond, "I'll be in church at that time". Root would ask the piercing question, "What do clothes and being "in church" have to do with worship? Look again at worship, and your Sunday experience may take on new meaning.

Spilt Grape Juice: Rethinking the Worship Tradition

Christian Books & Bibles

Root, Mike

Churches & Church Leadership

College Pr Pub Co

Life's Cobwebs: Breaking Free from the Entrapments of the World

Religion & Spirituality

Collage

Unbroken Bread: Healing Worship Wounds [Paperback] [Jun 01, 1997] Root, Mike

Unbroken Bread: Healing Worship Wounds

Literature & Fiction

Univ Editions

The Judas Sword

Action & Adventure

Xulon Press

Have you ever wanted to sit down with God and ask him any question that crossed your mind? We all have, because we've asked those questions in our head multiple times throughout our life. In a quaint little coffee shop, over hot mugs of coffee, Mike sits across the table from God, who opens the door to any question. How do you talk to God after a lifetime of talking to him with your eyes closed and receiving no immediate response? Now, you're eye-to-eye, with all expressions, nuances, and animation speaking to you as much as the voice you hear. Does God laugh, joke and sing? Can you talk with someone who can know every intent of your heart? And what does he look like? Is he the Santa Claus that so many picture him to be? Is he the white-robed, white bearded Zeus-type sitting on a marble throne just back from playing Chess with mankind? How would God show himself - in a coffee shop - with an ordinary minister who has spent a lifetime attempting to get others to be attracted to him, seek him, and obey him? How would he answer the questions that have haunted the preacher's mind for decades? He found out - over a cup of coffee.

God, That Coffee's Good: What would you ask God?

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

It is very difficult, if not impossible, for most of us to read and interpret the Bible objectively. I have espoused the belief for years that "The first casualty of biblical interpretation is objectivity." We enter our study of the Bible with all the things others have taught us. We carry all our religious baggage with us as we study and learn, and are thus reinforcing our predetermined beliefs rather than discovering the spirit of the message in scripture.for instance, when you have been taught that Christians go to church on Sunday and worship God, and there are specific requirements that God wants to see happen during these "formal worship" times, you tend to use scripture to prove and support that premise rather than honestly seek to understand what was written. After all, those practices, rituals, ceremonies, or "Acts of Worship" are laws commanded by God and they must be obeyed - or are they? Most Christians are surprised to find out that nowhere in the New Testament does it ever say that the followers of Jesus met together on Sunday to worship. We impose that definition from our own traditions. Worship was never a time and place but a life given as a "living sacrifice" to God.The things that God's people do when they come together are more a product of traditions, preferences, and manmade ceremonies. God's Tool Box is a challenge to rethink how we look at many of the things we do when we are together. If God is simple and clear about what He wants, he is not in the business of creating hoops for His followers to jump through or religious jigsaw puzzles that people need to piece together and "figure out." He wants us to love Him completely and learn to do that by loving one another. Everything He calls on us to do is to support that goal.God's Tool Box is a call to a paradigm shift in how we view God's requirements for helping each other grow in love. Instead of giving us rituals, ceremonies, acts of worship, or any list of "religious requirements," He gave us tools. Tools are used to get a job done. They are not the god to be worshipped or rituals to perform. They are practical tools with practical results.God's tools are anything He gives us that we can use to help others grow closer to Him, and as a result, help us grow also. I have fourteen tools in the box and there may be more. Whatever they are, they are used as a support, not the goal or focus.

God's Tool Box

Most Christians understand the importance of integrating faith with work, striving to be ambassadors for Christ wherever they go. But how many Christians are either in the military or employed by the government and feel as though they can’t blend their beliefs with work? How many more are in a leadership position and find themselves having to choose when to serve Christ? Many Christians either don’t know how to serve Christ in their position, or are simply too scared to. Throughout For God and Country, readers will come to know what it is like to serve Christ and lead simultaneously. In this book, we will discuss: <ul>
<li>What servant leadership looks like while serving our country</li> <li>The value in serving our country and in serving Christ </li> <li>The meaning of our work as servants and leaders</li> <li>The only sacrifice that brings life</li> </ul>
Faith and leadership no longer have to be separate. Join Mike Root as you seek to serve Christ and bring glory to His name in all you do.

For God and Country: A Discussion on Servant Leadership

Lucid Books

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