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Fist-Pumping Praise!
👊🤘 A guest post reflecting on Psalm 33- Why are people raising their arms in church? Have you ever been to church Sunday morning during worship and felt like you wanted to dance in the aisle or raise your arms like you were at a rock concert or on top of a mountain, clapping your hands and shouting loudly? But then you look around at everyone else and you think, “Oh man, if I start doing that then they’re just going to say I’m totally nuts.” Well, Psalm 33 suggests that this type of behavior, when moved by God, actually isn’t crazy, it’s “befitting” (Psalm 33:1). A shout for joy…
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Fruit bombs, secondhand kindness, and the fruitcake of the Spirit
Have you ever seen a healthy apple tree or lemon tree or an orange tree produce so much more fruit than its branches can handle? I’m talking about a tree that will actually stunt its own growth by unintentionally harming itself simply because its own branches will break under the sheer weight of all the fruit it is producing. If a person doesn’t come in there and harvest the fruit, then that’s exactly what will happen. At least eventually. “The fruit tree with no one to eat from its branches becomes the image of a dying tree” That’s also what can happen to any Christian who is deep in the…