Psalms for Lent | Cast Down Your Burdens

Posted By Dave Yauk on Apr 5, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS TO RELIEVE BURDENS Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 55 | Cast Down Your Burdens http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-55_Cast-Down-Your-Burdens.mp3 Many churches from all denominations across the globe are entering into the season of Lent to prepare for Easter. Whether you observe LENT or not, it’s a...

Listening

Posted By Kelly Baugh on Mar 30, 2017

One of the most valuable (yet most difficult to practice) skills I have developed as a writer is to listen. The act of listening is hard. It takes a lot of self-control. It means squelching the arguments and justifications that jump readily to mind when someone is dissecting or critiquing my work. This is because listening requires  the most strenuous of all virtues: humility. Humility says, “This thing I have created is very dear to...

Psalms for Lent | Free Me From the Trap

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 29, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS ACKNOWLEDGING OUR ENEMIES Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 31 | Free Me From the Trap http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-31_Free-Me-From-the-Trap.mp3 Many churches from all denominations across the globe are entering into the season of Lent to prepare for Easter. Whether you observe LENT or not, it’s a...

Pride (Genesis 3)

Posted By Tim Paterson on Mar 28, 2017

The carers of the garden, entrusted guardians there were two, Adam and Eve. Able to eat the fruit of any tree except one, for if they ate of this fruit they would know things that only God knew and they would no longer be free. But this tree caught their eye and they believed the lie of the crafty snake, ‘Did God really say?’ They believed there was another way, besides the one they walked with in the cool of the day. See...

Psalm 4

Posted By Lancelot Schaubert on Mar 23, 2017

Respond… Respond to me when I send for you,    You, my right god Release the pressure, ease the stress   Grant mercy to this, my prayer.   When, men, will you cease forming honor into shame?    How long to love lies and know other lovers?   Know the Lord saves the godly for him   His ears tune into my voice.   In your anger, don’t you sin;    While on your bed, when lights are dimmed    See you heart’s...

Psalms for Lent | Hope In Need

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 22, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS FOR THOSE STRUGGLING WITH PRIDE Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 10 | Hope in Need http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-10_Help-in-Need.mp3 Many churches from all denominations across the globe are entering into the season of Lent to prepare for Easter. Whether you observe LENT or not, it’s a season to...

Psalms for Lent | The Cross is Gain

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 22, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS FOR SUFFERING Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 22 | CROSS IS GAIN http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-22_Cross-to-Us-is-Gain.mp3 Many churches from all denominations across the globe are entering into the season of Lent to prepare for Easter. Whether you observe LENT or not, it’s a season to prepare...

Effective Evangelism Needs Artistic Expression

Posted By Byron Spradlin on Mar 21, 2017

Evangelism that works is more than just spewing ‘correct’ biblical information; correct?  (Things like John 3:16, Romans 10:9 & 10, 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8.)  Certainly, the objective realities of these revealed truths must be present.  But their presence does not guarantee that the one(s) being evangelized will come to faith. Effective evangelism needs artistic expression:  the imaginative rearrangement of human metaphors, symbols...

Psalms for Lent | The Lord has Heard My Cry

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 15, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS FOR THOSE IN ANGUISH, FEAR AND IN NEED OF HEALING Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 6 | The Lord Has Heard My Cry http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-6_The-Lord-has-Heard-my-Cry.mp3 Many churches from all denominations across the globe are entering into the season of Lent to prepare for Easter. Whether you...

Dangerous Spirituality

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 9, 2017

We have inherited a Western idea of spirituality that has trickled down into our worship.  “The spirituality we inherited, for all the richness and holiness it bred, is essentially for the individual. This spirituality puts the full responsibility for the search for God and for holiness on the person, though he or she is expected to need direction, and probably the structure of a life specifically designed to support spiritual search....

Psalms for Lent | Our Warrior King

Posted By Dave Yauk on Mar 7, 2017

GOD WRITES SONGS OF DELIVERANCE Garden City released Psalms Vol. 1 in 2016 Download it Now! Psalms Vol. 2 to be released in April of 2017 Psalm 3 | Warrior King http://worshipministrycatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Psalm-3_Warrior-King.mp3   As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst …’Repent and believe’ Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of...

Alpha and Omega (Genesis 1 and 2)

Posted By Tim Paterson on Mar 7, 2017

Alpha, the first. Before there was, He was. Uncreated, infinite, without beginning or end, outside of time and space, limitless and without constraint. He began His work: He stretched out the heavens and sculpted the earth, giving form to the matter and shape to His works. Light and darkness, night and day, the parameters of the universe He set in place. The vault between the waters, the expanse separating the heavens above and the...

Wandering (Genesis 4-6:12)

Posted By Tim Paterson on Feb 28, 2017

Aimlessness beset the chosen, purpose and direction severed – the consequence of their betrayal, separated from the one who gave them life and would continue to give them life, without Him who walked with them they wandered the land, wondering why they went awry. Wickedness was on the rise, a brother turned against his brother – the one who saw favour in the Lord’s eyes, this act of jealousy he disguised concealing...

Psalm 3

Posted By Lancelot Schaubert on Feb 23, 2017

O Lord, count for me my foes!      How many arise! I hear whispers      “God won’t rescue him.” breathe… But You build your castle around me, O Lord      You douse me with your light, and lift up my weary head I cry aloud to the Lord      And I hear his answer from Holy Hill peace… I pass out, asleep      I awake on my own, for the Lord upholds me I fear no hundred thousand      lines surrounding me...

Posted By ChrisJones on Feb 22, 2017

Enjoy this Comic from WMC and GCP’s illustrator Chris Jones Garden City and Worship Ministry Catalyst’s vision is to see innovators and creatives engaging the world in worship and mission through their art. Here’s a sample from Chris Jones. We don’t often see the dangers that lie in front of us, and this humorous graphic reminds us to Dive in Prayer, lest we Dive into Danger. Give this comic away to someone...

Power Filled Worship

Posted By Dave Yauk on Feb 21, 2017

  An obsession with power fills our world.  Whether it’s through the dominance of a government system, the outrage of a murder in the streets, a catty fight in the school hallways, or gossiping words that malign a person behind their back, all of these pursuits tarnish people and the idea of one thing—power!   In our thirst to comfort ourselves and to make ourselves feel safe, we endlessly search for powerful masters that we...