Dr. Joshua wraps up his series, “Rediscovering Worship” Part 9, by focusing on the arts, professional work development and honing individual skills and talents. He opens with four Bible stories that he entitles, “David’s million-dollar drink of water”, “Jesus’ million-dollar foot bath”, “A manager’s million-dollar mistake and make-over", and “A king’s million-dollar mutual fund managers”. He follows these Biblical accounts by exploring how we can see our resources from God’s Perspective and view our skill refinement as ministry.
As Dr. Joshua begins to wrap up this series, “Rediscovering Worship”, he welcomes special guests, Dr. Prince and Gina Parker, long-term missionaries with an extensive history of sacrifice as a result of the call of God which is, in essence, true worship. Listen to their incredible story of sacrifice and obedience amid minimalistic living, death threats, illnesses but true triumph and victory after victory after victory in their dynamic journey to take the Gospel to the nations.
In “Rediscovering Worship” Part 7, Dr. Joshua discusses the collective praise and worship experience that includes cultural differences not based on race, but on generations. He breaks down the major generational groups within the context of the American worship experience.
In “Rediscovering Worship” Part 6, Dr. Joshua opens with the story of Cornelius, a man described in the Bible as being devoted. Being devoted is about seeking God consistently. Seeking God is a practice and Dr. Joshua details what this looks like in our lives, individually and collectively.
In “Rediscovering Worship” Part 5, Dr. Joshua talks about the power of coming together to worship while also acknowledging current health and safety concerns that support online streaming. The bottom line in both circumstances is that God wants to dwell with us.
Dr. Joshua continues his message, “Rediscovering Worship” Part 4. In this message, Dr. Joshua discusses consumerism as a problem in the church – going to church to consume the Word, good music, socializing, recreation, etc. rather than attending church for 1) praise to God and 2) service to others.
Dr. Joshua continues his message, “Rediscovering Worship” Part 3. In this message, Dr. Joshua discusses devotion to church and gathering together, exploring both the online church experience as well as the in-person experience. He also compares devotion and collaboration to affiliation and transaction for the average church attendee. Toward the end of the message, he highlights the limits of technology and the limits of an in-person church experience. In this message, Dr. Joshua challenges us to search our hearts for our own personal motivations for participating in a church service.
Dr. Joshua continues his message, “Rediscovering Worship” Part 2, reviewing last week’s message that discussed the Old Testament role of priests. Today, God calls us priests and Dr. Joshua discusses what that looks like today and uses the story of Saul and David to illustrate this point. He also discusses ways we, the church, often try to cheat the act of worship.
On this day, Zoe’s reopening for in-person service after over a year of being closed due to the COVID pandemic, Dr. Joshua talks about our hiatus from church and compares that to an Old Testament story of the church evacuating their temple. So, why do you go to church? Why does God go to church? Dr. Joshua begins a new series on what it is that God desires from us as His children.
Dr. Joshua and Bishop Ed continue their series of relaxed conversations about topics of interest from a Biblical perspective. In this conversation, Dr. Joshua and Bishop Ed discuss topics such as choosing God’s rules, relationships, African-American men, humility, hope, faith, entitlement, hearing from God, co-laboring with God and the goal to win the prize.
Dr. Joshua and Bishop Ed continue their series of relaxed conversations about topics of interest from a Biblical perspective in this, part 3. In this segment, Bishop shares his very personal story of meeting his father for the first time as an adult son. They discuss the role of fathers, the significance of praying fathers, not taking the bait in difficult situations, and more.
Dr. Joshua and Bishop Ed continue their series of relaxed conversations about topics of interest from a Biblical perspective. In this segment of part 2, Bishop also shares a key takeaway from his years of pastoring plus more.
