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Who Do You Worship? And Why?

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Have you worshipped God today?  This past Sunday we saw a great little sermon bumper called "Everyone Worships Something"        It is so true that "We were made to worship" like the song says.  In trying to define worship, I suppose we could say that we will worship that to which we have given the greatest part of our lives.  But in reality we probably give a large part of our lives to a lot of different things in varying degrees and in different seasons of the year or in different seasons of our lives.  (Like, right now it's football season, and there is a lot of what looks like worship going on every Saturday in stadiums across the nation!)   But what if we said that the definition of true worship is your response to just that one thing that has captured your heart and permeates every part of your life to the point that you would be willing to die for?  What or Who do you worship?  By now you know the "correct" answer is Jesus.  But y
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Today is September 4, but at sundown it became Tishri 1 and is the special day called Yom Terurah or the Feast of Trumpets in Leviticus 23:23-25   And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,   Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.   Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord . So?  With all that is going on in the world today and the US considering a military strike in Syria, why should I care what the Bible says about some obsolete Jewish festival? If you are a lover of the Word of God who believes that every word of scripture is there for a reason and is completely trustworthy, then you must at least be curious about the Feasts of the Lord which are clearly defined for us in the book of Leviticus.   When the Bible says that we are to observe and remember this day by blowing the shofar, I have c