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December 2016

December 05, 2016
Bad worship leads to bad theology. Bad theology leads to an unhealthy church. It's that...
December 02, 2016
Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 11:1 A shoot shall come out from the stump...

November 2016

November 30, 2016
Someone asked me the other day if I was planning to check out the new...
November 29, 2016
The American church is obsessed with its demise. That's understandable, of course, since it is...
November 26, 2016
First Sunday of Advent Matthew 24:36-44 24:36 "But about that day and hour no one...
November 22, 2016
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's beginning to sound a lot like...
November 18, 2016
Happy New Year! Well, almost. Welcome to the Lectionary Hymn of the Week! One of...
November 16, 2016
There are a lot of articles and posts written by some great people who left...
November 14, 2016
Opening Sentences I think that one of the things that bothers me the most about...
November 11, 2016
  Me-worship is about us, and for God. True worship is about God, and for...
November 09, 2016
On the night our Savior was betrayed, he gathered with his disciples for his last...
November 07, 2016
Today's post was written by Miguel Ruiz, and is reposted with permission from Miguel and...
November 03, 2016
Christian culture doesn't get Proverbs 31 right, and the misunderstanding haunts women everywhere. We keep...
November 02, 2016
How do we know worship when we see it? Is it in the song? Is...

October 2016

October 27, 2016
There are others, like South Main Pasadena's Minister of Music, who had an uncanny ability...
October 24, 2016
I speak the language. I know your stories. I know you never sing the third...
October 21, 2016
Kids don't grow up singing hymns anymore. For those of us who are people of...
October 19, 2016
As my fellow Patheos blogger reported last week, Chris Tomlin's recording of "Good, Good Father"...
October 17, 2016
Hey, everybody. How would you describe the worship service you attended yesterday? What adjectives come...
October 10, 2016
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will...
October 09, 2016
   
October 05, 2016
I wish I was making this up. One of the things I find most bothersome...

September 2016

September 28, 2016
Call to Worship I get comments from a lot of parents (and other adults) who...

July 2016

July 20, 2016
The worst effect of the worship wars is that they made value-based conversations about worship...
July 18, 2016
Two years ago this week, I wrote a post touting the continuing importance and practical...
July 12, 2016
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past decade, you probably know something...
July 08, 2016
When words fail, when we don't even know how to pray, we can rest in...
July 07, 2016
I think that one of the things that bothers me the most about so much...
July 05, 2016
When I was growing up in Baptistland, we used to have this guy come and...
July 01, 2016
When I was a kid, the church my family went to had mostly forsaken hymn-singing....
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