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December 2016

December 05, 2016

7 Ways Contemporary Worship is Starving the Church

Bad worship leads to bad theology. Bad theology leads to an unhealthy church. It's that...

December 02, 2016

Lectionary Hymn of the Week: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry

Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 11:1 A shoot shall come out from the stump...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Remembering “Handel’s Young Messiah”: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things!

Someone asked me the other day if I was planning to check out the new...

November 29, 2016

4 Reasons to Stop Talking about Church Growth

The American church is obsessed with its demise. That's understandable, of course, since it is...

November 26, 2016

Lectionary Hymn of the Week: Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding

First Sunday of Advent Matthew 24:36-44 24:36 "But about that day and hour no one...

November 22, 2016

Keep Christ in Christmas: Stop the War on Advent

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's beginning to sound a lot like...

November 18, 2016

Lectionary Hymn of the Week: Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun

Happy New Year! Well, almost. Welcome to the Lectionary Hymn of the Week! One of...

November 16, 2016

13 Reasons I Never Joined the Contemporary Worship Movement

There are a lot of articles and posts written by some great people who left...

November 14, 2016

Be a Beautiful Church in an Ugly World

Opening Sentences I think that one of the things that bothers me the most about...

November 11, 2016

Me-worship Verses True Worship

Me-worship is about us, and for God. True worship is about God, and for...

November 09, 2016

Then They Sang a Hymn

On the night our Savior was betrayed, he gathered with his disciples for his last...

November 07, 2016

10 Signs a Church May Be Trying Too Hard to Be Hipster

Today's post was written by Miguel Ruiz, and is reposted with permission from Miguel and...

November 03, 2016

If I had written Proverbs 31…

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?

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

20 Hymns Your Kids Should Know

Kids don't grow up singing hymns anymore. For those of us who are people of...

October 19, 2016

Chris Tomlin’s “Good, Good Father” Wins GMA Song of the Year

As my fellow Patheos blogger reported last week, Chris Tomlin's recording of "Good, Good Father"...

October 17, 2016

If the house of worship is a-rockin’, don’t bother knockin’…

Hey, everybody. How would you describe the worship service you attended yesterday? What adjectives come...

October 10, 2016

Why Doesn’t Violence Against Women Make Us Angry?

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will...

October 09, 2016

King Donald Won’t Lead Us to King Jesus

October 05, 2016

Worship Team Wanted: Fat People Need Not Apply

I wish I was making this up. One of the things I find most bothersome...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Dear Parents: Your Teens Don’t Need Contemporary Worship

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

July 2016

July 20, 2016

3 Weak Arguments against Contemporary Worship Music

The worst effect of the worship wars is that they made value-based conversations about worship...

July 18, 2016

11 Reasons to Keep Screens out of the Sanctuary

Two years ago this week, I wrote a post touting the continuing importance and practical...

July 12, 2016

Sex, Drugs, and Hillsong Young and Free

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past decade, you probably know something...

July 08, 2016

8 Hymns to Sing in Response to Tragedy

When words fail, when we don't even know how to pray, we can rest in...

July 07, 2016

Worship and Justice Belong Together

I think that one of the things that bothers me the most about so much...

July 05, 2016

Modernized Hymns: Hymns, or Contemporary Songs with Old Words?

When I was growing up in Baptistland, we used to have this guy come and...

July 01, 2016

God and Country: Idolatry in the Hymnal

When I was a kid, the church my family went to had mostly forsaken hymn-singing....

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