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December 2020

December 24, 2020
You know Joy to the World. You know Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. You know...
December 03, 2020
Just like evangelical "pop" worship, which has sentenced itself to a cycle of reinvention as...
December 01, 2020
I think people are usually startled by the first Sunday in Advent. They come in...

November 2020

November 29, 2020
Happy New Year! With the arrival of Advent today, I've been thinking a bit about...
November 27, 2020
Congregational singing is not a matter of "taste." Anything we do in corporate worship is...
November 24, 2020
Whenever I talk about how pop worship music is inappropriate for Christian worship, I  get...
November 24, 2020
"This is precisely the Advent situation: doom on one hand, deliverance on the other." "Advent...
November 23, 2020
I understand the significance and love advent hymns and will even sing a few, but...
November 21, 2020
It's called Advent, people, and it's crucial to our understanding of Christmas. In Advent, we...
November 20, 2020
I’ve always said that it’s important to keep writing new hymns. I still believe this....

July 2020

July 22, 2020
During this time of fear and uncertainty in the COVID-19 wilderness, I’ve decided to do...
July 21, 2020
During this time of fear and uncertainty in the COVID-19 wilderness, I’ve decided to do...
July 20, 2020
During this time of fear and uncertainty in the COVID-19 wilderness, I’ve decided to do...
July 19, 2020
During this time of fear and uncertainty in the COVID-19 wilderness, I’ve decided to do...
July 07, 2020
I get some pretty weird targeted ads on Facebook. Today, I was introduced, over and...

June 2020

June 30, 2020
We often mistake emotional stimulation for divine interaction. This is why commercial pop worship is...
June 29, 2020
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June 20, 2020
Seriously, folks, if your church is doing "Good, Good Father" tomorrow, you need a new...
June 19, 2020
Note: I am not suggesting a return to congregational singing until scientific consensus states that...
June 17, 2020
The war against the once-beloved "Onward, Christian Soldiers" is decades old, now. When the United...
June 16, 2020
Yes, I said it. A bunch of boomers didn't make it past the title of...
June 15, 2020
An honest evaluation of the characteristics of commercial pop music clearly reveals that it's not...
June 13, 2020
Yesterday, the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) revealed that Catholic composer and...
June 12, 2020
On this week's installment of "Worship Leaders Say the Darndest Things," we are confronting a...
June 10, 2020
In January, I joined a gym and signed myself up for some personal training. My...
June 07, 2020
Trinity Sunday is colloquially known among clergy and theologians as “Heresy Sunday.” The reasoning behind...
June 06, 2020
Here is a series of comments I received on my Facebook page this morning, along...
June 05, 2020
I've observed a number of discussions taking place on social media this week regarding favorite...
June 04, 2020
One of my favorite preachers, the Rev'd Dr. Jeffrey Hanson from Boston's Church of the...
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