What is Worship?

What really is worshiping? After reading one of my friends blogs about what worship is I have been thinking a lot about it. What really is worship? What does it look like, feel like and what does it all encompass?
I have started to feel that our westerner worship and prayer is pointless... stepping on any toes yet??? but honestly take a look at our worship and prayers.
Maybe I am wrong but when we come to worship half the people are either watching or just singing because that’s what we are expected to do, and the other half is really into it, but for what, a feeling? Like I worship and I long to get into the Holy of Holies but isn’t worshiping more then that? Scriptures say to worship in Spirit and Truth, and we are told that worshiping God is more then just singing songs to Him. Should we long to be able to enter the Holy of Holies while singing worship to God, or should are focus be on honoring God with our lives, and with out testimony???
And praying, we are forever being told to listen to God and that it’s a conversation with God. Funny how in prayer meetings and prayers in church we never take the time to listen or even ask what God would have to say to us. I total believe we need to let God have a say when we pray but I find that even I pray differently, sometimes I will listen to God sometimes I just talk and then not let God have a turn. And I see it at pre service prayer in church prayers at prayer times.

Is there a change rising up in our worship and prayer? Is God starting to put this on peoples hearts to look deeper into worship and prayer past the shallow part into the depths? Or maybe I am alone in this. Thoughts?

Slurpee Capital

So like I just have to say that many of my American friends, who have never been to Canada, or been here so long ago that they don’t remember, think its cold all year round here, and maybe we are colder more often then they are and longer then they are. But here in Winnipeg no matter rain or shine, winter or summer we love our slurpees.

Its said that you know your from Winnipeg when you walk home from school in -40C weather plus a wind chill to make it feel like -500000000000000000, wearing ski pants, winter coat, mitts, scarf’s, toques, and you go to 7-11 for a slurped.

Now that may be a little overborad but it is true we love our slurpees and once again we have gotten named Slurpee Capital again 7th year running.

Here is a clip from the university news paper

Winnipeg named Slurpee capital of world for the sixth time
Kirsten Whitehill
The Projector (Red River College)
WINNIPEG (CUP) — Twenty-three-year-old Winnipegger Amber Peter waits for her bus at the corner of River Road and St. Mary’s. Her cheeks are rosy and you can see her breath when she talks. It’s a cold winter day, but that hasn’t stopped her from buying a large Slurpee from the 7-Eleven store just behind her.

Sucking back an average of 400,000 Slurpees every month, Manitoba has won the title of Slurpee Capital of the World for the past six years, showing that Peters is not alone in her obsession.

“I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of those bumper stickers that says Slurpee Capital of the World,” said Peter. “If I can drink one of these in this weather, I think I deserve at least that.”

There are 27,900 7-Elevens worldwide, and Manitobans purchase approximately 8,300 Slurpee drinks per store each month.

Not to mention the fact that alternative frozen beverages, such as Slush Puppies and Frosters, don’t count toward the Slurpee competition.

According to 7-Eleven’s slurpee.com website, a broken soda fountain machine back in 1959 is responsible for the Slurpee creation.

Omar Knedlik, who owned a drive-in hamburger restaurant in Kansas, served semi-frozen bottled pop from his freezer as a quick fix when his fountain broke. The success of the slushy soda inspired Knedlik to develop a machine that would replicate his invention.

With the help of a Dallas machinery manufacturer, the first slush machine was invented.

When a 7-Eleven manager noticed one of the slush machines in a competitor’s store, he saw success and knew he had to buy one. By 1965, 7-Eleven had purchased three machines, and only two years later almost every 7-Eleven store was equipped with a machine. The ice drinks were later named Slurpees, after the noise they make when sipped through a straw.

Today enough Slurpee drinks are sold each year to fill up 12 Olympic swimming pools.

“I drink Slurpees all season long,” said Peter. “This city wouldn’t be the same without its Slurpees.”

This paper was written in march 29th, 2006 and just this past week we were given the tital again for our 7th year

Going on a Trip

Ok so like I was watching Its a New Day, and the speaker was awesome, He went to Jerusalem and got a big revelation… that Jesus is a Jew, so when he came back to Canada he studied and talked to Messianic Jews about the culture of that time and the writing style and just who this Jesus is to them. He was sharing a bit of what he’s learned and he’s found that in the scriptures there is more that we as westerners miss. I very much so interested in finding out more about this and studying into this. I also very much want to go to Jerusalem and plan on going in a few years. Want to come with? Lets make plans.