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February 2016

February 16, 2016

Does the church idolize music?

Idolatrous Introit Inevitably, any discussion of corporate worship eventually seems to descend into a competition...

February 10, 2016

Worship Isn’t Always In a Major Key

Of course, worship is not primarily about music, but I can't ignore the musical comparison....

February 09, 2016

Resurrecting the Funeral

I haven't been to many good funerals lately. In a real sense, of course, that's...

February 08, 2016

10 Worship Songs We Should Stop Singing

Congregational singing is a privilege; it's also sacred duty, a discipline, part of the work...

February 07, 2016

A United Methodist Team Examines the CCLI Top 100 List

A committee working on behalf of the Discipleship Ministries of the United Methodist Church has...

February 04, 2016

Dear Church: Use music to tell your story, not to get butts in the seats.

"If music is to fulfill its intended purpose in worship, it has to be understood...

February 01, 2016

A Case for the Pipe Organ

This blog post by LifeWay Czar Thom S. Rainer caught my attention recently. He's reporting on...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

9 Reasons Every Church Needs to Sing Hymns

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

13 Solutions for a Church that Just Won’t Sing

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

Squandered: Rethinking Worship in University Chapel Services (Guest Post by Chuck King)

Today we're featuring a post written by my friend and mentor, Chuck King, on an...

January 15, 2016

The Black Dog, The White Pill, and Liturgy

My name is Jonathan. I suffer from depression. I have as long as I can...

January 08, 2016

Dear Traditional Worshipers

I know you're there. I know there are many, many of you out there, no...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

A Christmas Prayer

Everlasting God, We celebrate new life today. The new life born in Bethlehem, the new...

December 23, 2015

5 Christmas Carols We Should Know By Heart (And a Few We Should Forget)

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

Have Worship Your Way, or: The Real Reason the Worship Wars Were Terrible

As I said in my last post, the worship wars sucked. But they didn't suck...

December 03, 2015

9 Reasons to Stop Dividing Your Church’s Worship over Style

Let's face it. The worship wars sucked. Not because the issue of worship is peripheral....

December 02, 2015

Anthems of Peace for a Violent Day

It's sick. Another week, another mass shooting. It's just sick. And it's sick that it's...

November 2015

November 22, 2015

10 Reasons to Follow the Liturgical Calendar

(Flickr: Pete Jelliffe, creative commons license 2.0) Happy New Year! Well, almost. With the arrival...

November 12, 2015

Worship Should Be Exceedingly Boring

(Photo: Flickr: By Paul Sableman, creative commons license) Opening Sentences The increasing speed of TV...

November 02, 2015

Which of our favorite hymns are rewritten “bar” songs?

Photo by Thierry Ehrmann. Available through Flickr via Creative Commons 2.0 License Are many of...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

The Ultimate “Christian” Halloween Celebration

I've seen about a million posts this week about what constitutes an appropriate "Christian" response...

October 19, 2015

8 Reasons the Worship Industry Is Killing Worship

(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

Worship is not about preference…

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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