The worship of the living God is a long war for the cosmos. Every Lord's Day morning the future of the world is being determined by how God's people approach the heavenly city. God continues to shake the earth until His kingdom is all that remains. Every Lord's Day we participate in this shaking by besieging the gates of Hades in song, prayer, and the preaching of God's Word. This is a joyful yet solemn task. Our worship is to be both alive and disciplined. Our hearts and heads must both be engaged in an intentional manner that refuses to treat the Lord's service like a junk drawer filled with random elements. Rather, it is to faithfully reflect the patterns and rhythms found all through the Scriptures whenever God keeps covenant with His people. So, the charge is this, see to it that you are intentional about the worship of the living God, in the daily pattern of family worship, and in the calendar-defining event of corporate Sunday worship.