Matthew Engelbrecht

30 Days of praise: All alone? Never alone. This is a challenge presented to us that consists of us searching for characteristics of God that we can be thankful for. Often we neglect the vast majority of who God is because we limit Him to being Love or being Patient or Forgiving, but if we think deeper we can see so many aspects of Him that we can be thankful for. So for this post i'll be looking at Psalm 16 and digging into it searching for aspects of God that I may have forgotten or not have considered. Psalm 16 English Standard Version (ESV) You Will Not Abandon My Soul 16  Preserve me, O God, for in you I  take refuge. 2  I say to the  Lord , “You are my Lord;      I have no good apart from you.” 3  As for  the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,      in whom is all my delight. 4  The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;      the...

How did the cross change worship? How did the cross change worship, well ultimately this question comes down to the question of what does the cross mean to you? Because its not the cross we worship, we worship the one true living God. So we need to be very careful that we do not worship the fact that Jesus died for us, but rather Jesus himself, keeping in mind what he did for us as a fuel to our worship. It goes like this,we used to be bound by the old covenant that said that only the priests were able to worship God in the holiest of holy's, but now because Jesus died for us, the covenant was changed. We now have free access to God, we don't need to sacrifice anything, but ourselves in order to let God have all the glory and not ourselves justified by our works. In Christ we have no condemnation. God does not point His finger and say 'you are a sinner, therefore you can't worship me'. The opposite is true. I see God as a father that is wanting to embrace us ...