By Donald Kutala PDF! Is this Portable Document Format? Nope! this is completely something else! It is Passion, Dedication and Focus. Paul compares the Church to one body that consists of many parts in 1 Corinthians 12:20. A profound way of how we as believers should serve God and one another in unity with less
By Dwayne Moore Text: 1 Peter 1:13-25 Theme: God demands and deserves nothing less than our complete obedience. Key verses: “So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you…So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of
By Dwayne Moore Deuteronomy 6:4-5 says,“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” I believe these two verses are central in helping us grasp acceptable worship to God. We must love him completely,
By Suzanne Provagna This morning I awoke before dawn and went outside. It was completely dark and yet the birds were incessantly chirping. It sounded like hundreds of birds happily singing while working. I couldn’t see anything but it was obvious that there was immeasurable activity going on. If you couldn’t hear, you would not have known that the
By John Martin In my role with NLW International, I am blessed to meet some very talented and gifted people. Even within our own team God has blessed us with a wide range of talents and personalities! But regardless of how gifted any of us may be, we must never forget what matters most. The
By Dwayne Moore I got deported. Yep. Never thought I’d have to put those three words together in the same sentence. But it’s true. Bottom line: India wouldn’t let me in. I can’t really blame them. The customs agents were just doing their job. It was really my fault. In a nutshell, I had ordered
By Dwayne Moore In our first part to this series, we discussed the worship leader’s need of inspection from their pastors. Today we will discuss something that I believe is even more important, and that’s involvement! The pastor needs to be involved with the music or worship or arts ministry. This is very important to
By John Martin Whether you are a pastor, a worship leader, or a member of the praise team then you know what it is to be front and center. You understand the rush of adrenalin when you walk out onto the stage. You know what it is like to receive the praise and accolades of
By Suzanne Provagna Forgiveness has been on my mind these last couple of weeks. I can’t begin to understand the depth of God’s love for us and the pain that He went through to watch His only Son take on our sins so that we could live a beautiful life in eternity with our Father
By Dwayne Moore I have been leading worship and working as administrative pastor and other capacities in churches for many years. I’ve sung and spoken in over 1,000 churches and conferences. I’ve met many worship leaders and I’ve also spoken with many pastors over lunch in other places. And some things that I’ve noticed from
By Suzanne Provagna When I fall at Your feet, I find Your favor, I fix my eyes on You. The most important thing I can do today is worship Jesus. In college when I was preparing for a piano recital, I would practice each difficult measure or phrase until I could play it just as
What an amazing time we had in country #4 of our training tour! Check out these pics from the conferences & lead team retreat we did in Zambia. We’ve already trained over 1000 pastors, worship leaders and worship team members, seen at least 8 people saved, AND taught over 3400 people about lifestyle worship! Now
This article is an excerpt from Pure Praise: A Heart-focused Bible Study on Worship by Dwayne Moore. Hebrews 13:15 encourages us to “continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name” (NKJV). Praise is primarily acknowledging God for who he is. Thanksgiving, on the
The praise song the People of Judah sang in 2 Chronicles is an excellent example of the kind of worship song that both honors and pleases the Lord. Not only was it scripturally accurate (what God said), it was a redemptive song that epitomized the very heart of God (who God is). “His mercy endures
