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January 2019

January 07, 2019
I recently read an online article entitled, "Where Next for Contemporary Worship?" It was actually...
January 03, 2019
  Neither praise nor worship have a style. They are to be spontaneous, unrehearsed, and...

December 2018

December 24, 2018
Many of you may have heard that today is the 200th birthday of Silent Night....
December 23, 2018
I should preface the following remarks by saying I am not anti-technology. How could I...
December 22, 2018
One of the most frustrating misconceptions borne out of the commercial Christian worship movement is...
December 19, 2018
As a professional church musician, Christmas Eve is probably my favorite holy day of the...
December 17, 2018
Relevant online recently shared Hillsong's new version of O Holy Night, claiming it will "give...
December 06, 2018
George Herbert Walker Bush June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018 The Burial of the...
December 04, 2018
In Celebration of and in Thanksgiving For the Life Of George Herbert Walker Bush June...
December 03, 2018
Someone asked me the other day if I was planning to check out the new...

November 2018

November 30, 2018
It's that time of year again. For the next few weeks in the majority of...

October 2018

October 30, 2018
When my old, usually reliable car is giving me trouble, there's only one person I...
October 29, 2018
As a professional Christian, I don't get many Sundays off. In fact, I tend to...
October 25, 2018
You might notice I said "'hymns' are better than contemporary worship songs." Not "old hymns."...

September 2018

September 25, 2018
I want to make one thing clear before I plant my tongue partially in cheek:...
September 23, 2018
In the early 90s, the private music studio of Reva Cooper Unsicker made occasional appearances...
September 06, 2018
I need to be honest with everyone. There are a lot of contemporary worship songs...

August 2018

August 31, 2018
"For the most part institutions are lost, not because they are stormed by hostile outsiders,...
August 27, 2018
  Simpsons. Often, I would feign a self-imposed bedtime just as the local news ended,...
August 21, 2018
I also think Susan Wright is dead wrong. (I also didn't know we had a...
August 16, 2018
Here is a real, completely true question I got from a reader. Remember, I am...
August 16, 2018
Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey When I was a kid, I thought I really really...
August 13, 2018
Apparently John Piper added some words to the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" and some...
August 10, 2018
It looks like the beginning of the end at Willow Creek. They aren't saying that,...
August 09, 2018
As a church musician, I've done my share of denominational sojourning. Every time I join...
August 09, 2018
One of the things the baby boomer generation has introduced into the liturgical sphere is...
August 07, 2018
  They're just words, friends. Just words. What we do with them is the important...
August 04, 2018
My name’s Jonathan, and I struggle with depression. So please know that when I wrote...
August 03, 2018
I thought I had heard everything from the church growth crowd. I really did. Wrong....
August 02, 2018
In my last post, I talked about the weird, unnecessary, overly pragmatic reasons we have...
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