People are often afraid of their feelings, especially when it comes to the role they play in our worship of God. So what does the Bible say about our affections in our times of praise and adoration? Are they to be avoided or suppressed, or expressed in heartfelt love for the Lord?

What does God when his people praise him? In this episode we continue our exploration of how the power of God to heal and transform and restore broken hearts will often occur when we worship and adore and extol his greatness and grace.

Why do we sing when we worship? Why not just recite words in spoken prose? What is it about music and singing that make both so essential to our praise of God? In this episode we explore what God’s word says about music and our singing.

Today we dive deeply into Psalm 145 to discover what David says about worship. In this incredible psalm of praise we not only read about who God is and what he does, but also the many ways in which we are to respond in praise and adoration.

Peter tells us in 1 Peter 2:9-10 the reason why we exist. It is so that we might proclaim the excellences and extol the beauty of the God who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. In other words, we exist to worship! What this actually means and how it expresses itself in our lives is the focus of this episode.

What is worship? How might we know if our singing and celebration of God is truly honoring of him? In this episode we explore the meaning of worship and set the stage for multiple sessions in coming to understand how we might extol and exalt God in all of life.

There has been much said and written lately regarding the wisdom of singing songs that originate from either Bethel or Hillsong. I wrote a defense of doing so and in this episode I expand on that article and provide what I trust are good reasons why making use of their music is entirely permissible.

This is the final episode of the Exploring Word and Spirit on the subject of cessationism versus continuationism. In this program I examine the remaining good arguments for being a continuationist. My conclusion is that whereas there are no good or persuasive arguments for being a cessationist, the NT presents us with numerous good reasons for being a continuationist.

In this episode we launch into our study of the twelve good reasons for being a continuationist. Are there solid, biblical reasons for us to pray for and pursue all the gifts of the Spirit? Yes! In today’s program we look at the first four of the twelve good reasons for believing in the validity and operation of all spiritual gifts in the life of the church beyond the first century.

Today we continued our assessment of the arguments in favor of cessationism, the notion that the miraculous or more overtly supernatural gifts of the Spirit ceased or died out in the life of the early church and are not intended by God to be exercised today. In the previous podcast we looked at the first three of twelve bad reasons for being a cessationist. In this episode we look at the remaining nine bad reasons.