Mindful Worship

It has been quite some time since I’ve connected you to some of the best articles, editorials, and blog posts I’ve read about Christian meditation and meditating on God’s Word. When I run across really good articles, I always make a note of the location–I just haven’t been sharing them with my readers. However, I’m taking a few minutes now to share some. I expect to share more in a few weeks. Just like in Volume 1, these are presented in no particular order. I hope you enjoy them!

• I just wrote an article for Praise-and-Worship.com entitled, Worship with Meditation. This article provides a brief history of meditation in the Bible, a summary of my own techniques for meditating on the scriptures, and an explanation of how meditating on the scriptures can be an act of worship.
• Phil Pringle is the pastor of Christian City Church Oxford Falls. Phil prints verses on paper and then meditates on them. As he does so, he writes his thoughts and comments on the paper using different colors and styles, then he posts those thoughts and comments and a picture of his finished work of meditation on his blog. Try this yourself! I’ve been doing it some and it has been a wonderful experience for me.
• Week 2 of the “What Works” series by Phil Fox Rose for Busted Halo is entitled, What Works: Meditation.
• When I got my first Palm PDA about 9 years ago, the first Bible software I used on it was by Olive Tree Bible Software. They have a wonderful article on their web site entitled, Meditating on God’s Word. You don’t have to use one of their Bible programs to learn a great deal from this article though.
• Although it’s a very short post, T.J. Francis has a post entitled Stop and Think… at his The 12th of Isaiah blog, that I think will make you stop and think.

I have a couple dozen more articles that I can highly recommend, but I’ll save those for another day. If you are aware of some articles, essays, or blog posts you would like me to consider for future volumes, feel free to contact me with a link to them. (Photo by Quinn Dombrowski. Original on flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License)

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