Worship

Sunday again. After a lot of work, time for church, for gathering as God’s people. Do you long for it? Desire for it? Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t perhaps. Upcoming Sunday we learn how the Gospel deepens our desire to worship God. To deepen our desire we need an appropriate view on what God is doing and on what worship actually is. For this we look at the story in II Samuel 7:1-17.

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The Children’s Ministry | Time: 12:30 am

The bible reading for coming Sunday Children’s Ministry is Matthew 7:15–23

Scripture reading: II Sam 6

While selecting the music for next Sunday’s service, a brother emailed me, “Could you please help me choose songs that match the Bible reading? I find the story quite confusing.” The story is indeed confusing, if not horrifying. David wants to bring the ark to Jerusalem. But the oxen that pull the cart carrying the Ark stumble. Uzzah reaches out and touches the Ark. He dies on the spot. I wonder. What if Uzza hadn’t intervened? What if the Ark was broken? What if God Himself came into this world and was crucified and died? What if God allows a pandemic to destroy public worship? Such a thing would be terrible. But can we also learn something from it?