Bones Alit Devo

For months youtube kept suggesting that I watch videos about why people left Bethel and Hillsong. I never clicked on any of them. I tried blocking some of them. I told my husband that these videos were surely divisive and that I didn't want to support them. But then I had a question about visions. Mind you, my "vision" wasn't a dream or waking vision. It was just something that happened to me and I wondered what I should take from it. Was God stopping me from writing about worship because I was wrong? Or was the devil fighting me, because what I stumbled upon needed to be said?  So I prayed, "God, give me something good to watch" while I turned on my tv. Up popped a video: Unpacking Doreen's vision with Pastor Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith https://youtu.be/f9MtKZsh1U0 So I watched it. Of course, not all visions are from God. I have had visions and dreams that were so obviously playing on my fears that I never questioned whether they were fro...

What kind of performance does God prefer from the congregation? When I first read the description for the book, Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I thought, I'm not planning to live in a monastery, why would I read about life in a community of believers? As is often the case, I found a quote from this book which intrigued me, so I gave the book a read. Previously to reading Life Together, I had read the Bonhoeffer biography by Eric Metaxas which inspired me greatly. In Dietrich Bonhoeffer's journal he recounted having visited Harlem and wrote highly of the congregational singing he encountered there. My heart was lifted up just thinking about the black spirituals I grew up on. My heart needs to experience congregational singing.  I long to be one voice among many worshipping someone worth worshipping. I'm not trying to show anyone how worshipful the service was for me. I am trying to not care at all about anyone but God.  How many Hillsong or Bethel or Elevation or Jesu...