I’m currently working on writing a Philosophy of Worship for my Intro to Music Ministry class, and came upon this passage. “As for you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has [...]
This is a response to a blog post here, which I found linked from here. This will make more sense if you read the original post first. Honestly, I don’t think that there is a “magic bullet” to reaching my generation. I do think music is a factor for our generation, but not the factor. [...]
I’ve been trying to figure out how to arrange songs for a contemporary worship band. So far, here are the resources I’ve found helpful: Paul Baloche DVD – Worship Band Workshop Paul Baloche DVD – Style Ed Kerr DVD – Keyboards in Contemporary Praise & Worship Arranging in the Digital World (Berklee Press) Arranging: Reharmonization [...]
God’s love reached down from heaven into time and space, God’s love cared enough to redeem this sinful place. God’s love sent His truth, in flesh with human face, God’s love offered His Son to save the human race /that His glory be displayed. God’s love despised our sin, demanded Christ obey, God’s love heard [...]
Here are a couple of very good quotes, taken from Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Donald S. Whitney. It’s assigned reading for my Personal Spiritual Disciplines class. Consider the people who will work hard at learning to play an instrument, knowing that it takes years to acquire the skills, who will practice hard [...]
“I know that many Christians would argue that I am rejecting the package and that I should not necessarily reject Christ himself. At the moment I cannot see a meaningful way of separating the two.” This is a quote from a blog I read called de-conversion. It’s a blog for people who are skeptical about [...]
These are HILARIOUS videos!!! (well mostly, part of me cringes, too.) There is a series of six, Christ follower vs. Christian videos, that are a parody of the Mac vs. PC ads. Here’s the first one from YouTube. Tweet
Nancy Beach has a great article on her blog, “Do I want to be called a Christian?” that really resonates. I’ve encountered so many people who are turned off by Christianity – because of not only hypocrisy, but spiritual prideful-ness. She asks some good questions… “How can we become more tolerant without letting go of [...]
Integrity music has a great article by Glen Packiam about worshiping God for what he has done. Here’s a quote from the article. “If you’re like me, you’ve tried sincerely to do it: to worship God for some ethereal reason completely unattached from his actions, but somehow failed miserably. You may have become severely discouraged [...]
If you wish to deepen the worship of the people of God, above all deepen their grasp of his ineffable majesty in his person and all his works. DA Carson, Worship by the Book, (Michigan: Zondervan, 2002), 31. Tweet
