August-October 2025

THIS is worship!

AUTUMN 2025 (all articles in this issue are listed below)

How many songs should a church worship service have – 3, 5, 7… 17?! Traditional or contemporary? How loud? New tunes or the same familiar favorites? And, how much should the worship leader talk? These are just some of the top concerns church leaders and church attendees regularly find concerning.

It’s no surprise that 2 separate studies by the Barna Group show that people desire simplicity and difference-making in their spirituality and yet need help to understand what worship is and how to truly connect with God.

The Autumn 2025 issues of our Lifestyle Media Group magazines celebrate the simple nature of God and will help you discover how the lifestyle interest(s) God has given you can be a simply beautiful way to worship God.

What exactly is worship? It is the expression of love and devotion to God. The reason why we worship God isn’t just because God calls humans to do it but because it’s how you experience purpose and power in life.

We want to help you take your love for fitness, travel, gardening and the outdoors – your lifestyle interests and make them ways you pray, commune with God, fellowship with others, give of yourself, reflect, confess, proclaim, receive instruction, read the Bible and be spiritually expressive – all ways that you can do worship.

Sure, go ahead and sing songs of praise and worship. But DO worship every time you do what you do. THIS is worship!