Beside Still Waters Ministries

David.  A shepherd boy.  A musician.  A warrior.  A poet.  A King.  A worshiper.  A man after God’s own heart.  Oh, and don’t think that he was perfect – he was also a murderer and an adulterer, among other things.  Saying that he was a man after God’s own heart just means that even when [...]

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This hymn is one of the most significant in church history, and it most symbolizes the Protestant Reformation.  It was written by Martin Luther on his way to the Diet of Worms, which was in 1529.  He was invited to this meeting by the Holy Roman Emperor and the pope under the guise that they [...]

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Read Luke 7:36-50
This story tells us several things about the heart of a worshiper.  First, that she was a giver – and not just a little to say that she did it, but she gave lavishly.  This jar of ointment was worth a year’s wages, plus because of the kind of container it was in [...]

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To go along with how the Holy Spirit can work in traditional hymn in my worship confessional from this last Sunday, I thought I’d post the Sunday School lesson I wrote about worshipping through liturgy.
What do you think of when someone says the word “liturgy” to you?
One of the most misunderstood ways of worshiping today, especially [...]

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You may or may not recognize his name, but Isaac Watts hymns are the most widely known throughout the Christian world – you should at the very least recognize one of his hymns, Joy To The World.  Born in 1674 in Southampton, England, he was the oldest of nine children and raised in a Nonconformist [...]

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