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February 2016

February 16, 2016
Idolatrous Introit Inevitably, any discussion of corporate worship eventually seems to descend into a competition...
February 10, 2016
  Of course, worship is not primarily about music, but I can't ignore the musical comparison....
February 09, 2016
I haven't been to many good funerals lately. In a real sense, of course, that's...
February 08, 2016
Congregational singing is a privilege; it's also sacred duty, a discipline, part of the work...
February 07, 2016
A committee working on behalf of the Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church has...
February 04, 2016
"If music is to fulfill its intended purpose in worship, it has to be understood...
February 01, 2016
This blog post by LifeWay Czar Thom S. Rainer caught my attention recently. He's reporting on...

January 2016

January 26, 2016
Not that long ago, hymn-singing was an inextricable part of corporate worship in essentially every...
January 21, 2016
  Miguel Ruiz is a post-Evangelical adult convert to confessional Lutheranism and a vocational church...
January 19, 2016
Nearly every day, I see a link to an article or post in my Facebook...
January 18, 2016
  Stop overstimulating and engage kids through liturgy.   Tear down silos in our congregations....
January 17, 2016
Today we're featuring a post written by my friend and mentor, Chuck King, on an...
January 15, 2016
My name is Jonathan. I suffer from depression. I have as long as I can...
January 08, 2016
I know you're there. I know there are many, many of you out there, no...

December 2015

December 24, 2015
Everlasting God, We celebrate new life today. The new life born in Bethlehem, the new...
December 23, 2015
I've managed to keep the popular tunes of the season mostly out of my ears...
December 20, 2015
As I've said before, movements like Hillsong are sapping the life out of congregational singing....
December 14, 2015
As I said in my last post, the worship wars sucked. But they didn't suck...
December 03, 2015
Let's face it. The worship wars sucked. Not because the issue of worship is peripheral....
December 02, 2015
It's sick. Another week, another mass shooting. It's just sick. And it's sick that it's...

November 2015

November 22, 2015
(Flickr: Pete Jelliffe, creative commons license 2.0) Happy New Year! Well, almost. With the arrival...
November 12, 2015
(Photo: Flickr: By Paul Sableman, creative commons license) Opening Sentences The increasing speed of TV...
November 02, 2015
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann. Available through Flickr via Creative Commons 2.0 License Are many of...

October 2015

October 31, 2015
I've seen about a million posts this week about what constitutes an appropriate "Christian" response...
October 19, 2015
(Photo: Flickr: by Jiaren Lau, creative commons license) I grew up listening to contemporary Christian...
October 02, 2015
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will...

September 2015

September 25, 2015
  But, and my apologies to Matt Redman, but we've lost the "heart" of...
September 16, 2015
It's about meaning. One of the things that I find puzzling about the whole worship...
September 10, 2015
Anyway, Willard, it's not that these hymn-singing churches sound so completely different all the time,...
September 08, 2015
The false dichotomy of worship that fractures our churches into "traditional" and "contemporary" worshiping bodies...
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