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June 2016

June 27, 2016
Over the past few decades, in a futile attempt to re-engage the growing segment of...
June 06, 2016
Why don't people sing in church anymore? A quick trip down Google’s memory lane reveals...
June 01, 2016
In a recent Church Leaders article, Jamie Brown fretted about the state of evangelical worship....

May 2016

May 26, 2016
  I don't know Art Briles personally. Maybe he's taught his players some good life...
May 23, 2016
Resist the temptation to conflate patriotism, especially American patriotism, with the gospel of Christ.
May 19, 2016
Better update those resumes! Willow Creek Community Church is now hiring for the position of...
May 04, 2016
It tempts us to exalt motherhood as the highest calling on a woman's life.

April 2016

April 27, 2016
"Pleeeaaassseee , that's the trouble with kids today , there's not enough spanking going around...
April 22, 2016
A while back, I was interviewed by Brad from a contemporary music website, Worship Links....
April 22, 2016
The Problem Protestant denominations have been singing people since the days of the reformation. Their...
April 19, 2016
Opening Sentences When I say that worship is 'about God and for us', I mean...
April 12, 2016
When I was a good little Southern Baptist kid, which was not that long ago,...
April 10, 2016
Prelude The increasing speed of TV is a great contributor to the loss of imagination...
April 02, 2016
I'm Jonathan, and I write about worship in the church. Except today, although I tied...

March 2016

March 29, 2016
Call to Save Worship This is a portion of a comment I received from an...
March 25, 2016
Lord of love, This is not a good day. It is a terrible day. A...
March 22, 2016
Greeting Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to...
March 21, 2016
Ye dwellers in darkness With sin blinded eyes, The Light of the world is Jesus!...
March 20, 2016
I suspect most rich Christians, filled as we are with the anxiety about our wealth,...
March 15, 2016
The year is 1980. High school dropout rates are epidemic. I've got a solution I...
March 13, 2016
Opening Sentences I recently ran across this article by Tim Wright called "Sunday Schooling Our...
March 11, 2016
Almost immediately after I published my last post on Andy Stanley's unfortunate choice of words...
March 03, 2016
The following quote was taken from a recent sermon by Andy Stanley, Senior Pastor of North...
March 01, 2016
  Missional Meditation I have tried to avoid God my whole life. I wouldn’t know...

February 2016

February 25, 2016
My recent post calling for a boycott of the worship industry seems to have struck...
February 23, 2016
My recent post on hymns that should be forgotten spawned quite a bit of discussion...
February 22, 2016
As is usually the case when I talk about the problems of commercial worship, my...
February 18, 2016
Christian culture's boycotts rarely do any good. They generally make us look arrogant, aloof, and...
February 17, 2016
The false dichotomy of worship that fractures our churches into "traditional" and "contemporary" worshiping bodies...
February 16, 2016
I've heard that tiny sliver of Psalm 22 thrown around my entire life, by pastors, church...
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