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April 2016

April 19, 2016

Worship Is For Our Benefit, Not God’s

Opening Sentences When I say that worship is 'about God and for us', I mean...

April 12, 2016

Let’s Phase Out the “Worship Leader”

When I was a good little Southern Baptist kid, which was not that long ago,...

April 10, 2016

Is Media Use Hurting Our Worship?

Prelude The increasing speed of TV is a great contributor to the loss of imagination...

April 02, 2016

God Likes Baseball Better than Football, and So Should We

I'm Jonathan, and I write about worship in the church. Except today, although I tied...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Will Changing the Way We Worship Save the Church?

Call to Save Worship This is a portion of a comment I received from an...

March 25, 2016

A Prayer for Good Friday

Lord of love, This is not a good day. It is a terrible day. A...

March 22, 2016

Wednesday of Holy Week: A Service of Scripture and Song

Greeting Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to...

March 21, 2016

Tuesday of Holy Week: A Service of Scripture and Song

Ye dwellers in darkness With sin blinded eyes, The Light of the world is Jesus!...

March 20, 2016

Monday of Holy Week: A Service of Scripture and Song

I suspect most rich Christians, filled as we are with the anxiety about our wealth,...

March 15, 2016

Finally! A Simple (yet Effective) Way to Reach Millennials!

The year is 1980. High school dropout rates are epidemic. I've got a solution I...

March 13, 2016

Killing the Church with Sunday School

Opening Sentences I recently ran across this article by Tim Wright called "Sunday Schooling Our...

March 11, 2016

Andy Stanley’s Apology, and Some Mega-questions for the Megachurch

Almost immediately after I published my last post on Andy Stanley's unfortunate choice of words...

March 03, 2016

Don’t Take Your Kids to a Megachurch: An Open Letter to Andy Stanley

The following quote was taken from a recent sermon by Andy Stanley, Senior Pastor of North...

March 01, 2016

But Contemporary Worship Brings People to Jesus! Right…?

Missional Meditation I have tried to avoid God my whole life. I wouldn’t know...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

How to Move Away from the Worship Industry

My recent post calling for a boycott of the worship industry seems to have struck...

February 23, 2016

100 Hymns Everyone Should Learn

My recent post on hymns that should be forgotten spawned quite a bit of discussion...

February 22, 2016

10 Hymns We Should Stop Singing

As is usually the case when I talk about the problems of commercial worship, my...

February 18, 2016

It’s Time to Boycott the Worship Industry

Christian culture's boycotts rarely do any good. They generally make us look arrogant, aloof, and...

February 17, 2016

8 Reasons Churches Should Sing New Songs

The false dichotomy of worship that fractures our churches into "traditional" and "contemporary" worshiping bodies...

February 16, 2016

Does God Really Inhabit Our Praises?

I've heard that tiny sliver of Psalm 22 thrown around my entire life, by pastors, church...

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 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....