was a great day at FBC Emerson. As the Pastor of Worship, it is a blessing to have the bird’s eye view I get from the platform. I love to see people singing to Jesus, looking past the words on the screen into God’s face as they worship. I pray I will see more of that in the life of our church. I pray we will grow as worshipers of Jesus Christ.

We heard from Warner today with a talk titled “What is God Really Like?” We heard about how and when our “world view” is formed and how that impacts us. We heard about moments in life that may have defined or changed our world view like 9-11, the crash of Challenger, when Kennedy was assassinated, or when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Moments like this “make us” look at life like we haven’t before. We saw a time when the Prophet Isaiah had one of those defining moments where his world view was changed in Isaiah 6:1-6.

What is God Really Like?

We also heard about God’s Holiness, and how we by nature are not Holy. Holy means set apart or different from. We saw that often times to many of us take God’s grace for granted and God’s judgement with to little concern. Even as Christians we will come before the judgment seat of Christ and be held accountable for our deeds (2 Corinthians 5:10). That’s something to think about at the forefront of our minds, when often we let it go in the mire of “it’s all good.” We are not “all good.” We need a Savior who is. Even in that Savior who is Jesus Christ, we are not to take that great grace of God for granted.

That is what I recollect. What stuck out to you?

If you missed it, and care to listen or listen again you can go over to Warner’s blog and hear it.

You can see what else stuck out to me from Warner’s sermon on my twitter profile. If you’d like you can follow me.

I thought today at the church house was a momentus occasion. When I first came here to FBC Emerson, I began with a picture in my mind of what I believe God had painted of what He wants our stage to look like, with all the different instruments and people involved. Today the first strokes of that picture beagn to take shape on the canvas. We had 10 people in our lead worshippers choir, along with the band which consisted of acoustic, bass, and drums. I sang lead, with another singing harmony. This is becoming a more beautiful picture…I love to dream up cool creative ways to keep our worship service fun, fresh and deeply meaningful. I feel that happens by the collaboration of gifted people.  I pray God would bring the people he has gifted to serve Him in worship to our lead worshippers choir, band and vocal team, and audio/video/lighting. I pray He would give me wisdom to lead it. I want this to be a place where disciples of Christ can do what they were created to do…serve Him…Worship Him…a momentus occasion in itself.