Rooted in Jesus Grace

Worship is meant to be the most God-centered act of the Christian life — the moment when the people of God gather to exalt His glory, confess their need, and delight in His holiness. But in our age of spectacle and performance, something subtle yet serious has happened: worship has begun to resemble entertainment. The stage has replaced the altar, the spotlight replaces the Spirit, and the congregation becomes an audience. This shift is not always intentional. Many leaders simply want to create engaging, relevant services. Yet when the focus drifts from the glory of God to the experience of man, worship loses its center. What was meant to lift our eyes heavenward instead loops inward, reinforcing the consumer habits of the culture around us. So what does it mean to rediscover reverence and awe? To answer that, we must first understand the difference between entertainment and worship . Entertainment vs. Worship Entertainment aims to please people. Its measure of success is how much we...

When Scripture speaks of God “healing the brokenhearted,” it isn’t offering a palliative slogan or a therapeutic technique. The Bible’s promise is far deeper, anchored in covenant, redemption, and the gospel story. To unpack it well we need to face three realities the Bible ties together: what being “brokenhearted” means, how God heals, and what that healing looks like in the life of a believer and the world. Brokenheartedness in Biblical Perspective “Brokenhearted” in the Bible is not simply feeling sad. It names a condition of profound spiritual and moral fracture: grief that cuts to the core, humiliation or shame, disorientation after loss, and the inner collapse that follows exile, injustice, betrayal, or sin. The Hebrew imagery (for example, the phrase often translated “broken of heart”) pictures bones or a heart rent, crushed, or splintered — not a passing melancholy but a deep disruption of life, identity, and relationship. This brokenness has multiple sources in Scripture: the ...

Confusion over inner healing has only grown over time. It’s not that Christ does not heal the inner person—He absolutely does—but that popular teachings have mixed biblical truths with psychological theories in ways that distort the gospel. In the process, the phrase “inner healing” has become so entangled with questionable ideas that many now associate it more with therapy than with the transforming grace of Jesus Christ. For decades, believers have been told that our present struggles stem from events in the distant past—even from the time we were in our mother’s womb. Supposedly, we need a “healer” who can, through personal revelation, uncover forgotten memories or traumas so that we can finally be free from their power. Others have been told that unknown “generational curses” shape their lives until someone with special spiritual authority identifies and breaks them. Still others were encouraged to “visualize Jesus” and embark on an inner journey back through the years—month by m...