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Taking Amos at his word, if all God wants is oceans of justice rather than egocentric noise, then the needs of a broken world must reclaim center stage from personal blessings during corporate worship experiences.
Download: Advent Worship Devotional slides
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Explore how the musical set that accompanied heaven’s greatest lyric 2000 years ago contrasts with modern Western worship, and how we can refocus and realign worship from “ego-centric noise†to oceans of justice.
PowerPoint slides (file type): .pdf
Note: the “Advent Worship†talk is based on an article by Louis Carlo and me previously published by Charisma magazine, Sojourners, and Urbanfaith.com (unedited).
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