Okay folks, I’m sorry I disappeared for awhile there. I overloaded myself last semester and I had to cut off all my blogging (except for uploading photos to my regular blog via flickr through my phone) and focus on schoolwork. All that to say sorry I was scarce for so long. I’m going to try and post once a week – not sure if I’ll get back to my goal of posting on Mondays and Wednesdays and random Fridays – but hopefully I’ll be back on that this summer.

I have been reading through John Piper’s “Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist” (10th Anniversay expanded edition). It’s really knocking me around – in a good way. The third chapter is on worship and I thought I’d post a few “quotables” from there. If you haven’t ready “Desiring God”, get yourself a copy and read it. Even if you don’t agree with everything he says, you really should at least engage and wrestle with it.

Okay, here are the quotes:

“…worship has to do with real life” (p. 73)

“Worship must engage emotions and thought.” (p. 76)

“Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.” (p. 76)

“…worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth.” (p. 78)

“[The] reflection of God’s glory in nature is not conscious. The mountains do not willingly worship. In all the earth only humans have this unique capacity.” (pp. 78-79)