Steve Phifer

The Rule of Prayer Is the Rule of Faith Lex orandi, lex credendi est    Worship leaders today struggle with unity in the worship experience of […]

Pentecostal Polarities—the Concept There are different kinds of truths.  Some are linear and propositional:  “If A equals B and C equals B, then A equals […]

Cheap Praise and Lazy Worship A Sunday Morning Meditation King David said “I will not offer to God that which cost me nothing.”  He was […]

Pressing Through But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” Then the woman, seeing that she could not go […]

Finding the Book Again  Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of […]

BEYOND THE COMFORT ZONE Public Worship Should Stretch the Worshiper The comfort zone.  Each of us has one.  Physically, there is a space that surrounds […]

Pentecostal Structure: Three-fold Worship A Form with Power But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of […]

The Rule of Prayer Is the Rule of Faith: Lex orandi, lex credendi est    Worship leaders today struggle with unity in the worship experience of […]

Pray Without Ceasing—The Life of Prayer Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus […]

Dynamics of Truth: The Biblical Directives  I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Ps 77:12 NIV I will praise […]

Unfinished… Semper Reformanda! and the American Dream There are strange parallels in life.  For several decades now, life has called upon me to study worship […]

Worship Leaders, Worshipers, and the Presence of the Lord Psalm 16:11 KJV Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness […]

The Role of Worship Models Worship is a spiritual interaction between people and God: He speaks and we respond. We pray and He hears us.  […]

Worship Renewal Articles and Essays Links to www.StevePhifer.com Jesus told the woman at the Samaritan well that our Father in Heaven was looking for worshipers […]

Deconstruction?  –There Are other Options! Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR Deconstructing the Faith? Something is happening to “the faith once delivered to the saints.”  It […]

“I will pray with the Spirit…” 1 Corinthians 14:15 At first it seems like an irony and then an impossible paradox. “Blessings” and “unfruitful” are […]

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The New Language of New Covenant Prayer Without a prayer language of the Spirit, the cognitive mind becomes the governor of prayer.  The believer can […]

Building God’s Highway through Your Desert Isaiah 40:3 NIV  “…make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God…” The story of civilization is the […]

Prayer the Way Jesus Taught It I believe the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is the constitution of the Kingdom of God.  Jesus taught […]

The First Century Prayer Paradigm             These people knew how to pray!  The record in the Book of Acts is impressive. Prison doors yielded to […]

The Apostolic Power of Private Prayer We marvel at their transformations:  Peter, James and John from simple fishermen to leaders of men; Paul from a […]

A good marriage, well matched from the beginning and faithfully attended to as the years go by, will invariably be a multigenerational blessing to the […]

(Author’s Note:  This is the script for a video produced in August of 2021 as an addition to a Christian Education lesson) I want to […]

Psalm 50:2 NIV From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. As I wrote in my 3-part essay, “Beauty,” This remarkable statement came to me in […]

  Worship Ministry at the Corner of Liturgy and Life 7 Essentials of Worship and Life It has been said that worship happens at the intersection of […]

What the World Needs Now “Love, Sweet Love…” It was a hit song on the pop charts in the late 1960s but it was far […]

(Author’s Note: This piece was written on assignment for Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, FL when I was a faculty member […]

The Importance of this Two-edged Sword When it comes to a surgery this delicate, dealing with invisible things like soul and spirit, a special, sharp […]

Biblical Worship Music Ephesians 5:18-20 NIV Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one […]

Pastors and Worship Leaders: Now is the time to prepare for what is next! We were all surprised by this pandemic and the Lord has […]

Worship: Content The Calamity of Culturally-Driven Worship Part Two: The Solution The Holy Counterculture Isaiah 60:1-3 NKJV Arise, shine; For your light has come! And […]