The Bible is our very best textbook on what it means to worship God in the way he desires to be worshiped.The stories of people in Scripture offer practical insights into how we can authentically live a life of worship to the Lord as “living sacrifices.” Some of the stories featured in this series of fifty-two worship devotions are those of well-known Old Testament personalities, like Moses, David, and Elijah. Others highlight lesser-known people, such as Shiphrah, Puah, Uzzah, and...

While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born behind a mule." Behind a beast of burden, the working man found in the blues a way to console the...