{"podcast":{"title":"Old things New Podcast","slug":"old-things-new-podcast-7097890","podcast_index_feed_id":7097890,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2655777.rss","website_url":"https://rcbhpastor.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2655777/c2a5766d22ee9a6df594f2e7da6b9793.jpg","author":"Reformed devotions from all of scripture.","episode_count":152,"summary":"The modern Church has a problem with Old Testament literacy. I'm on a mission to fix that one post at a time. Tune in for regular, reformed Bible devotions to go deeper with Christ.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/old-things-new-podcast-7097890"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 139: The Danger of Careless Worship (Ecc 5:1-7).","slug":"ep-139-the-danger-of-careless-worship-ecc-5-1-7","published_at":"2026-03-01T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/old-things-new-podcast-7097890/ep-139-the-danger-of-careless-worship-ecc-5-1-7","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/old-things-new-podcast-7097890","url":"https://rcbhpastor.substack.com/p/ep-139-the-danger-of-careless-worship","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188985857/6b67c316b9f5017f1d25b401dbb45727.mp3","summary":"Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7. Meditation In the words of John Piper: “ Mission exists because worship doesn’t. ” In John 4, Jesus tells us that God is seeking worshippers. The highest end for which we were created was to glorify God, to declare his excellence, to revel in his beauty, and to enjoy him forever. And yet, as we reflect on our own worship, how often are we truly so enraptured by God’s beauty that we would say we are reveling in it? Do we delight to declare and sing of God’s goodness? Perhaps we do not delight in God as we ought to, and perhaps sometimes our hearts are cold in worship. But I hope that you can say: “Yes, yes I do delight to worship God, and I lament that my heart is not warmer towards him.” The most important thing we can do as Christians is to glorify God and worship him. It follows, then, that one of the most important topics we can talk about is worship. In this next passage in the Book of Ecclesiastes, which we will unfold over the next few meditations, Solomon has some startling insights to give us about worship. As you will know if you have read Ecclesiastes before, this book can be very difficult to understand at times. Throughout our studies, I have been using a governing analogy to help you understand how this book works. I have said that the Book of Ecclesiastes is like a labyrinth, an immense, perplexing, sometimes mysterious maze. It is easy to get lost, easy to find yourself in a dead end with no way of getting to the middle. Solomon’s aim in this book is to show us how to get to the middle. His goal is to teach us how to fear God in a fallen world. At the end of the book, in Ecclesiastes 12:13, Solomon says, “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” To reach this…","meta_description":"Pray Read: Ecc 5:1-7. Meditation In the words of John Piper: “ Mission exists because worship doesn’t. ” In John 4, Jesus tells us that God is seeking wor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":508,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/old-things-new-podcast-7097890/episodes/ep-139-the-danger-of-careless-worship-ecc-5-1-7/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/old-things-new-podcast-7097890/ep-139-the-danger-of-careless-worship-ecc-5-1-7.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}