For a fine dinner with our spouse, you will go our of your way to clean the dining room, set the fine china, light the candles, and remove any distraction from this event. God appreciates our "setting the table."

What happens when we set the table? God arrives for dinner with his expectant worshipers. He moves in the hearts and lives of believers. He provides jobs, grace, hope, help, and cheer for all occasions. Our God lives. Our God reigns.

For a church to set the table means:…

Jeremiah 13:11 says, "for as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen."

God's hope and dream for his people corporately and individually are based upon our "clinging" to Him for our every need. Whatever the need, real or imagined, God has an answer for His clinging people. Even our…

As I prepare for worship, I am being led to preach on "the extravagance of God." Christ gave the blind man his sight in John 9. Could he have done less? possibly so, but he didn't Jesus gave him his sight completely.

He resurrected Lazarus in John 11. Could he have done something less. Sure, Mary and Martha even complained that he stayed away too long. However, Jesus resurrected his faithful worshiper, Lazarus.

Mary worshiped extravagantly through anointing Jesus with the…