"All of Life is Worship" - a Post Script

For ease of access, here is a link to my talk from mid-January. It is a honor and privilege to preach about worship. As an addendum to this preach I thought I would add a PS.

Here is my PS - Over the past few years God has been awakening me to the fact that all of mankind worships something, whether it is a job, our family, music and entertainment, food, or God himself. It's just the way we are made. What we see from the life of Jesus, though, is that instead of taking our eyes off of the Father, the joys, pains, loves, and endless commodities of life should STIR OUR AFFECTIONS for God. A nice Americano from Valhalla (a coffee shop on 6th Ave) can cause me to spontaneously worship God as much as some theologically rich worship song in the midst of a Sunday worship service. Hanging out with friends while watching the creativity of a movie can do the same. It has to do with the way we look at life and the Creator of life. A bigger view of God leads to a greater ability to worship...to bow our affections and wills to our Father. It's pretty scary to see the biblical view of what happens when we "worship the created rather than the creator" (Rom 1:24-26), but what happens when we live lives of worship can and will transform the places we live!