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Episodio 6 | Cómo la adoración cristiana nos transforma ¿Por qué Dios insiste tanto en que lo adoremos únicamente a Él? ¿Será simplemente porque Él desea recibir nuestra adoración? ¿O habrá otra razón detrás de ese mandato? En este episodio de Renovando Mente y Corazón, descubriremos que la adoración es mucho más que cantar o asistir a un servicio los domingos. A través de las Escrituras veremos que nos convertimos en aquello que adoramos, y entenderemos cómo Dios utiliza la adoración para renovar nuestra mente, transformar nuestro corazón y conformarnos cada vez más a la imagen de Cristo. Estudiaremos pasajes como Deuteronomio 5, Salmo 115, Jeremías 2, Romanos 12 y 2 Timoteo 3 para descubrir por qué la adoración ocupa un lugar tan importante en la vida del creyente y cómo impacta cada aspecto de nuestra manera de pensar, vivir y servir a Dios. Preguntas de Reflexión: -Durante esta semana, presta atención a las actividades que ocupan la mayor parte de tu tiempo. Evalúa las series o películas que ves, la…

En este cuarto episodio de Renovando Mente y Corazón, hablamos de cómo la adoración cristiana involucra tanto actitud como acción. Muchas veces pensamos que mientras hagamos “las cosas correctas”, Dios no se preocupa por nuestras motivaciones o por la condición de nuestro corazón. Pero la Escritura nos muestra algo diferente: Dios ve nuestras acciones, pero también ve el corazón que las produce. A través de Génesis 4 y la parábola de los talentos, reflexionamos sobre la coherencia entre lo que creemos, cómo vivimos y por qué hacemos lo que hacemos. Porque la adoración cristiana no es solamente cantar, servir o levantar las manos… es una vida entera rendida a Dios con un corazón genuino y una obediencia visible. En este episodio hablamos sobre: • La diferencia entre acciones vacías y adoración genuina • La relación entre nuestras intenciones y nuestra obediencia • Cómo nuestra vida diaria revela aquello que realmente adoramos • La importancia de servir y vivir para el Reino de Dios • Cómo la adoración…

En este episodio de Renovando Mente y Corazón, hablamos de una verdad fundamental: la adoración es continua. La Biblia nos enseña que la adoración no es simplemente un momento, ni se limita a la música o a un servicio el domingo. Es una realidad constante en la vida de todo ser humano. No dejamos de adorar… pero sí podemos cambiar el objeto de nuestra adoración. A través de pasajes como Salmo 84, Romanos 1, Éxodo 32, 1 Juan 2 y Romanos 12, exploramos cómo fuimos creados para adorar, cómo el pecado distorsiona esa adoración, y cómo toda nuestra vida —nuestros pensamientos, deseos y decisiones— revela a quién estamos adorando. Este episodio nos invita a examinar nuestro corazón y a reconocer que la adoración verdadera no es solo lo que expresamos con nuestros labios, sino la dirección completa de nuestra vida. Preguntas para reflexionar: • ¿Qué áreas de tu vida están cambiando la verdad de Dios por los deseos del mundo? • ¿Cómo influye esto en la manera en que compartes el evangelio? • Lee Génesis 4: ¿por qué…

En este episodio de Más que música: definiendo la adoración cristiana, exploramos cómo la Trinidad hace posible nuestra adoración. Muchas veces pensamos que adorar depende de nuestras emociones, nuestra música o nuestras capacidades, pero la verdad es que la adoración cristiana solo puede surgir del Dios trino: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo. Descubre cómo cada Persona de la Trinidad tiene un rol único en nuestra salvación y en nuestra adoración: El Padre toma la iniciativa: diseña el plan de salvación, nos revela su verdad y nos invita a adorar. El Hijo cumple la obra: mediante Su vida, muerte y resurrección nos hace justos delante de Dios y nos abre acceso directo al Padre como nuestro Sumo Sacerdote. El Espíritu Santo aplica la obra: nos convence de pecado, nos guía al arrepentimiento, transforma nuestro corazón y nos capacita para adorar en espíritu y verdad. Para reflexionar: ¿Cómo ha cambiado la doctrina de la Trinidad tu entendimiento del evangelio y de la adoración? ¿Cómo puedes incorporar lenguaje…

En este primer episodio de Renovando Mente y Corazón, comenzamos una conversación fundamental: ¿qué es realmente la adoración cristiana? Muchas veces asociamos la adoración con la música, las emociones o lo que experimentamos en un servicio el domingo. Pero en la Biblia, la adoración comienza en un lugar muy diferente. La adoración cristiana no es algo que nosotros iniciamos — es nuestra respuesta al Dios que primero se revela. En este episodio exploramos cómo a lo largo de las Escrituras vemos un patrón claro: Dios se revela, y su pueblo responde. A través de pasajes como Isaías 6, veremos cómo la revelación de la santidad de Dios produce confesión, gracia y obediencia. También hablaremos de lo que esto significa para nuestra vida devocional personal y para la adoración congregacional en la iglesia. Si queremos ser adoradores verdaderos, debemos comenzar donde comienza la Biblia: con la revelación de Dios en su Palabra. En este episodio hablamos de: • Qué es la adoración cristiana • Por qué Dios es quien…

Porque cuando renovamos nuestra mente y nuestro corazón con la Palabra de Dios, nuestra adoración deja de ser simplemente emoción y se convierte en una respuesta a la verdad de su Palabra. En esta temporada de Renovando Corazón y Mente, exploraremos qué significa la adoración cristiana desde una perspectiva bíblica y práctica. Más allá de la música y las emociones, veremos cómo nuestra mente, nuestro corazón y nuestras acciones pueden alinearse con la verdad de Dios para vivir una adoración completa en cada área de nuestra vida. Cada episodio nos guiará a reflexionar sobre la iglesia, la vida cristiana diaria y los desafíos culturales, siempre fundamentados en la Escritura, mientras profundizamos juntos en lo que significa adorar de verdad.

Through this season, I wanted you to have a deeper biblical foundation of what worship is because our God cares how He is worshiped and He also cares about what we worship. But besides all the passages that we talked about, I also wanted you to see how this biblical foundation affects your personal and also corporate worship. So, today instead of summarizing this season, I wanted to bring a special treat for you. Today we have the pleasure to have Dr. Joseph Crider with us and we will share some final thoughts on Defining Christian Worship. Next season we will be talking about the Visible Church and how technology is affecting how people think about their involvement in their churches. So stay tuned either through our social media or our website www.livingonthealtar.com

At the end of each episode we have talked about how the different aspects of Christian worship like the Trinity, the revelation-response pattern, or the ongoing aspect, impact our personal worship, but also our corporate worship... and especially in the last 3 episodes we have had a heavy emphasis on our personal worship because we talked about attitude, actions, transformation, sacrifice and obedience. I think it is very easy for us to see how those aspects of worship affect our personal worship because they directly involve us…our hearts and our minds. But sometimes, we are not aware that the corporate aspect of worship is as important as our personal worship. Listen for more! Discussion Questions: Would you consider yourself a spectator or an active participant at your church? Why? What are some ways you are putting or you could put your spiritual gifts to use? How has your fellowship with other believers shaped your faith? Thinking back to the beginning of this season, how has your understanding of…

The first time the word worship (shachah) is used in the Scripture is in Genesis 22, and its context is a sacrifice. The Lord had asked Abraham to sacrifice his promised son as a burnt offering, and Abraham decided to obey. Listen for more! Discussion Questions: What are some areas in your life that you need to sacrifice in order to live in a manner worthy of the Gospel? What is keeping you from worshiping God in a sacrificially obedient way? Memorize and meditate on Matthew 7:21-23. Then answer, what is the connection between being a disciple of Jesus and obedience? Why is it important to be an active member of a church? If you want to access the sources behind these episodes you can visit livingonthealtar.com and go to our Heart Meets Mind page.

Throughout the episodes we have highlighted some passages of Scripture where the issue at hand is worship…the people in those passages either are worshiping God or worshiping idols and God repeatedly warns his people to not worship other gods and teaches them how they should worship Him. Even the first two commandments emphasize God’s calling to worship only Him. Listen for more! Discussion Questions: Take some time this week to see what activities are taking most of your time this week. Evaluate the shows you are watching, the music are you listening to, the people you are talking to, and ask yourself, how is this helping me be more like Christ? Read Romans 12 and write down all the actions that serve as evidence of transformed minds and hearts. And ask yourself: how can I apply these verses today? What are some ways that your church’s Sunday service has informed your knowledge of God and impacted the way you live out your faith? How has the word “sacrifice” changed its meaning from the Old Testament and…

Many times we tend to think that God doesn’t care about our intentions or our attitudes if at the end we are doing what he has asked us to do... and this tendency affects how we think of worship. Listen for more! Discussion Questions: What are some occasions that you have noticed an inconsistency between your attitude and your actions? What are some ways that you can make your faith visible? (be specific) In your personal as well as corporate worship, how can you see the effectiveness of worship? Why is worship important? We will also be sharing recaps of the episode and these questions through our social media platforms and email! So if you haven’t, you can check our website livingonthealtar.com and subscribe. You will also find our social media handle there. If you want to access the sources behind these episodes you can visit livingonthealtar.com and go to our Heart Meets Mind page.

The psalmist says in Psalm 84:2 “My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.” Not only worship comes naturally to human beings, but also worshiping God is where they find their fullness and destiny. The Lord has created us with an innate longing to worship. In the book Unceasing Worship, Harold Best says, “we are…unceasing worshipers and will remain so forever, for eternity is an infinite extrapolation of one of two conditions: a surrender to the sinfulness of sin unto infinite loss or the commitment of personal righteousness unto infinite gain.” The term “unceasing worshipers” means that worship is not something that can be neglected or stopped. Human beings cannot cease to worship, but they can change their object of worship. Listen for more! Discussion Questions: What are some areas in your life that are exchanging God’s truth for the desires of the world? How does this aspect of ongoing worship influence the way you share the Gospel with…

rinity means that God is three in One. Throughout Scripture we have evidence of the oneness of God as well as the three persons of the Trinity and their different Roles. The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 explains it this way “The Eternal triune God reveals himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence or being.” This is one of the hardest concepts for us to understand. There are systematic books and other resources available that help us understand a little bit more but it is still a mystery that one day when we meet the Lord we will be able to attain it in its fullness. But for now, we know that God presents himself in three persons. Each of them have different roles but all of them share the same essence, meaning the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are God. So when it comes to worship, each of the persons of the Trinity has a specific role that without it, we are not able to worship. Listen for more! Discussion questions: How has…

One of the elements of this definition of Christian worship is response… meaning, Christians do not initiate worship, but they respond to an invitation from God. In John 4:23, Jesus teaches that the Father is the one seeking worshipers. Jesus says to the woman at the well “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”– the Father is the one inviting them to worship the one true living God, and this invitation is done through God’s self-revelation to His people. Throughout Scripture, we learn that the Lord has revealed himself to his people through creation, divine speech, appearances, Scripture, the person of Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit.[i] and today, the Triune God reveals his character, his plan of salvation, and his transformational teachings through Scripture. It is through the Word of God that he invites his people to behold his majesty and to worship him in truth. Allen Ross…

Defining worship is a rather difficult thing to do. The word we have in English is too narrow and at the same time too broad for all the different facets we learn from the Hebrew and Greek words. Some of those facets are to prostrate, to minister, and to serve. And although these original languages had different words to refer to the different facets, English just has one: worship. Listen for more! Questions for this week: If you were to define worship before listening to this episode, how would you define it? (it does not have to be any fancy wording!) Why does it matter that you know what worship means? Who is the initiator of worship? for more information, visit our website www.livingonthealtar.com and follow us on social media!

As a celebration of the Reformation, we are sharing with you three original songs that are based on Scripture! Our Father in Heaven, Let Your Will Be Done, and Our Portion Forever. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN by Lina Cole - in collaboration with Cesia Orozco Arr. Matthew Cole LET YOUR WILL BE DONE by Lina Cole Arr. Matthew Cole OUR PORTION FOREVER by Lina Cole Arr. Matthew Cole Rcopyright www.livingonthealtar.com

Today we will start the series called “A Heart for the Lord.” Today’s episode is a reflection on Luke 10, and it invites us to rejoice in our salvation and have the Lord as our portion. We pray this testimony is an encouragement for you!

To live a life free of anxiety, Jesus told us to: Live a life of generosity: When we give to others, let us do it in secret… let us restrain from the need to be recognized so God is the one who is praised and not us… because after all, what we have comes from him. Live a life of dependence on God: While we are here on earth with our broken flesh, we will struggle and be tempted to sin. This spiritual battle needs to be fought everyday through prayer and time in God’s Word. Live a life of faithfulness to God: our spiritual life is more important than any possessions we may acquire on Earth. Let us devote our lives to God and be faithful to him, for he holds our worth in His hands.

This is the second reflection on the series "O You of Little Faith" that speaks about our doubt when we turn our eyes away from our Savior! When you face trials, remember… Fix your eyes on God, not on the wind: don’t give the power to the difficult situations that belongs only to God. Remember God’s faithfulness: think of how God has worked in the past and hold on to his faithfulness in the middle of the struggle. Trust that God is in control: trust that his will is good and perfect for your life.

Why are you so afraid? That is a question I have to face more often than I would like to. The Lord has been gracious and gentle as He teaches me to not fear and to trust in Him. I pray this is a blessing for you!