Greater is He

Why is God great to you?

"...Praise be to you, LORD, the God of our father Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power 

and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, 

for everything in heaven and earth is yours. 

Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. 

Wealth and honor come form you; you are the ruler of all things. 

In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. 

Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name."

1 Chronicles 29:10-13

It is such a marvellous feeling inside to know that our Father is just so amazing. When we worship, we see our hearts break and mould in the light of God's presence. It can restore our shattered spirits and shine a light burning within us. 

Worship is not about making a congregation raise their hands or getting into the groove. It's a personal experience between you and God. Worship is a time when we see that we are weak and He is stronger more than we can ever imagine. 

It is a selfless act. 

It is a time when you and I feel vulnerable. 

There is always a season for celebrating when a baby is born or when someone is getting married to witness God's blessings. There is also a time in season when we go through a tough time like when our hearts are ripped out when we lose a family member or a very close friend. There is a times when we are really sick or physically exhausting catching up with our list of things to do. There are so many experiences we go through in life, whether we are full of joy or anger, you and I should worship God for all of who is He is to us.

God's faithfulness surrounds us and our response is simple. God wants us to spend time with Him - walk with Him, talk with Him. Through the trials, joy, blessings and strugles, God's power is revealed to us at such a personal level that we can't even describe that kind of feeling. We need to take our eyes away from what we lack and our weaknesses, but instead, look at God at His power, his glory, greatness and majesty. 


Worship Game Plan:
1. Praise To The Lord The Almighty - Joachim Neander, Catherine Winkworth, Christy Nockels and Nathan Nockels
2. Our God - Matt Redman, Jonas Myrin, Chris Tomlin and Jesse Reeves
3. Greatness of our God - Stuart Garrard, Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan
4. I Stand in Awe - Mark Altrogge


All for Him! xBN.

Love Offering

What is our truest worship? 

The Bible tells us that our worship when we find ourselves lost in His presence. A worshipper, in its truest form, worships in spirit and in truth. In spirit, we worship when we find ourselves loving Him, connecting to the Spirit of God from our inner most being. In truth, our thoughts, speech and actions are in sync to the worship we are laying at feet of God's presence.

Worship itself is not dependant on the how the big the band is or what songs are being sung. It is beyond the music. It starts with our relationship with God and when worship becomes our lifestyle, there are no words to even describe who God is and who He is to us personally.

From the love He has shown, sending His only Son, to being so faithful to us as His children, our anthem, is only to pour out our love for Him with adoration, affection and devotion.

"Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy in his dwelling place.

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of nations; ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name.

Bring an offering and come before him;

Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness." (1 Chronicles 16:28-29)

Worship Game Plan: 

1. Come and Sing Praises - Greg Massanari, Morris Chapman

2. Revelation Song - Jennie Lee Riddle 

3. How Great Thou Art - Stuart Wesley, Keene Hine 

4. Amazed - Jared Anderson

5. I Love You, Lord - Laurie Klein

All for Him. xBN.

Four Directions

Christmas comes around every year and it's quite obvious that we come together to remember God's gift when He sent His only Son to be born in this earth for the main purpose to be our salvation. 

But sometimes, I find myself gettting carried away in making sure the Christmas decorations are up, practicing for choir or finding the perfect gift, that it slips my mind why Christmas was set as a reminder. I've sometimes made the celebration of Christmas more important than Christmas itself. 

The importance of Christmas to remember this question: Why did Jesus choose to come to earth? 
It's a simple explanation - because He LOVED us. 
We had a need - to be saved. He initiated and didn't wait for us to find a solution as to how we were going to find our way back to God. Instead, He gave up the highest glory to be the lowliest. 

He created the solution. Christ became the answer. 

When we look back to what Christ did for us, we see that no other person could have done that kind of sacrifice - to be born in a odorous stable, to grow up with human pain, to feel rejection and to die a death He did not deserve. 

"I bring an offering of worship to King. No one deserves the praises that I sing"

-Christmas Offering

The love I have for my Saviour cannot equal to the kind of unconditional love that Christ has shown towards me. The most I can do is give all that I am and all that I do everyday. Days recently has been really tough with the pressures from work and rough relationships. One problem has started to pile on top of another and affecting my attitude whether at home or outside. This only caused me to be unhappy with the circumstances of my life that I've failed to see the light of Christ's joy. His perfect love has covered me with peace and has given me content that I have been longing for. Only when I've accepted His joy over my happiness, I was able to see that He is the light of my life that I can share to the world around me. That joy has not given up on me and has not let me go from the start. I cannot wait for the day that He comes back to return to take His family back to glorious home waiting for you and me. That is something to look forward to - our Christmas Hope.  

"Joy to the world the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King
Unspeakable Joy it rises in my soul, never lets me go" 
- Joy to the World  (Unspeakable Joy)

He loved me. He saved me. He has given me joy. 

But it doesn't stop there. My worship not only involves adoring God for who is in my life and what he has done, but also worshipping together with my brothers and sisters in Christ as one body. He is the God of broken hearts and weary souls, and I want to be nothing more but just to be like my Christ. 

"...let the nations sing it louder 'cause nothing has the power to save"

-Your Name

Worship Game Plan: 

Look Up: O Come, Let Us Adore Him - C. Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade, Matt Redman, Terl Bryant
Look Back: Christmas Offering - Paul Baloche
Look Around: Your Name - Glenn Packiam, Paul Baloche
Look Forward: Joy to the World (Unspeakable Joy) - Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash, George Frideric Handel, Isaac Watts, Matt Gilder
Look Up: Humble King - Brenton Brown

Lovealot

THERE IS A LOVE.

There is a love that is greater than any other love we look for in this world. No love in our relationships with family and loved ones that can bring satisfaction like the one that our Father gives us each day. Human love has its shortcomings - it loses sight of patience, peace and all other attributes who God is. It's HIS LOVE that is constant from the beginning of time - the beginning of our life.

God's love saves.
When the human race sinned, our relationship with God was severed. However, he made a way that we can cross over to Him when He sent His perfect Son, Jesus Christ, to sacrifice himself on the cross in place of us. He created a solution to our shortcoming. God gave up His Son, so we can be saved. When Jesus stretched his arms on the cross, a bridge was formed so we can run to God's open arms.

|And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, 

a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" Ephesians 5:3 

God's love overflows

Worldly love is sometimes conditional. We might be told that we are loved exactly the way we are - our strengths and weaknesses, our abilities and shortcomings. However, that is not always the case. Patience expires, peace is broken and that is when love from someone is not enough for us. We might say something that we regret and become hurtful, which may lead to anger and arguments. We might have to work hard to mend the relationship to know and feel we are still loved. However, no matter how hard to push God away or disobey his commandments, His love is still there surrounding us with grace and mercy. His love keeps flowing in the lowest of our time to comfort us and guide us to His light. His love does not give up on us easily when we stray away. It just keeps flowing and flowing and flowing and flowing and flowing. 

For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness 

reaches to the clouds. Psalm 108:4

Because His love surpasses all things, our response is quite clear. We should love him with all that we are. He is our Provider, because He made a way for us to be reconciled to Him. He is our source of comfort, because His arms carries us through the storms of our lives. Our response is to love Him, because He first love us, for who He is and what He has done. 

I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God Deuteronomy 32:3 

Worship Game Plan: 

1. Your Love Never Fails - Anthony Skinner and Christ McClarney

2. Beautiful Exchange - Joel Houston

3. At the Cross (Love Ran Red) - Christ Tomlin, Ed Cash, Jonas Myrin, Matt Armstrong, Matt Redman

All for Him! xBN.

Sochi!

Every four years, I look forward to watching the Winter Olympics. This year, I am quite proud of our athletes representing Canada in Sochi with our standing and medals accumulated so far. We crown our athletes with so much praise and applaud them for their hard work before the Olympics in their trainings and during the Olympics when they step out in their specific sport.

When I think of the reason why Jesus gave up his throne in heaven to endure the humiliation and the suffering on the cross, my heart can do nothing more, but to crown him with majesty and praise. The same way when we get excited when our athletes has gained a medal for our country, our hearts should race in joy when we think of Christ’s kingship. He, first, did not consider himself equal with God, and he made himself nothing when he came down to earth. There is no one like Jesus and no one else deserves the highest praise for what He has done. Exalt him – for every knee should bow and confess that Jesus is Lord.

Worship Game Plan:

1.  Introduce Mission Song for next month: Send Me Out – Steve Fee

2. Sing Sing Sing – Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Matt Glider, Daniel Carson and Travis Nunn

3. Crown Him (Majesty) – Chris Tomlin, Matt Maher, Ed Cash, Matthew Bridges, George Job Elvey, Godfrey Thring

4. I Worship You Almighty God – Sondra Corbett

All for Him! xBN.

Thanks Be to God

Thanksgiving should not only be the only time of the year when we’re reminded why we should be thankful. Each day God shows us his endless mercy and showers us with grace that we don’t deserve. Because of His mercy, He has rescued us from our enemies. Because of His mercy, He kept His promise then to His people and still keeps the same promise to us up to today. Because of His mercy, we can worship and serve Him without fear to be in His presence. He has clothed us with holiness and righteousness to approach His throne of majesty.

That’s one more thing we can be thankful for – His love…His grace…His mercy.

Worship Game Plan:

1. You are Good – Israel Houghton

2. Hosanna (Praise is Rising) – Brenton Brown, Paul Baloche

3. 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman

4. Doxology – David Crowder, Thomas Ken

All for Him! xBN.

None Greater

Who is mighty enough to take care of his children and yet be so gentle when he cares for them?
Who is greater than our greatest nations put together and are counted less than to nothing?
Who can compare to who God is, what he has done and how loves us?

There is a Shepherd who carries us close to His heart.
There is a Creator who spoke the very Word of life.
There is a Maker who tells the ocean "You can only come this far".
There is a God who makes our biggest accomplishments and problems so small to His greatness.

Isaiah 40 tells us we have a God who is everlasting, powerful and incomparable. Praise Him for greatness, His might and His power.


Worship Game Plan:

1. We Lift You Up - Glenn Packiam

2. Shout to the Lord - Darlene Zschech

3. The Greatness of our God - Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan, Stuart David Garrard

Lift up your eyes on high

Lift up your eyes and see

God calls each star by name

Becauase He is great in might

Strong in power

We can never go missing from His arms - J.Ballaret



All for Him! xBN.