Helping Churches Think Deliberately Biblical About Worship.
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The only way children learn to worship God rightly is by observing right worship. Could it be that worship is such a mess today because previous generations did not expect their children to worship with their parents? I plan to consider this topic more in the coming days...
John Piper offers some excellent counsel regarded how we should view TV and movies and whether we need to immerse ourselves in pop culture in order to contextualize...
One of the services we try to provide at Religious Affections Ministries is to help with ministry placement. We are currently in contact with a few churches looking for music directors/pastors and individuals looking for churches in which to serve. If you are one of theses, please let us know...
Wheaton College Church music director Chuck King considers his past in contemporary worship. No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
The John Ness Beck Foundation seeks to “encourage and promote the writing of traditional sacred music.” One of the means through which they encourage this is through an annual program “which recognizes current composers of traditional sacred choral music by selecting two...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, reported by David Lapp, reported by Matthew Hoskinson on marriage vows. Bookmark It
There has been a lot of talk recently about the New Calvinists and their charismaticism; here is a post in which it is argued that John Calvin advocated lifting of hands, etc. in worship. I haven’t had time to look at this very closely yet, but a couple initial observations: 1...
A video series. I haven’t watched any of it yet, but it should be interesting. Bookmark It
Challies continues the discussion. Bookmark It
There have been several interesting taxonomies of music/worship philosophies developed recently that have spurred me to think through classifying various positions. They intrigued me mostly because I found them unhelpful and missing key nuances, but each has merit that I think should be considered...
Tim Challies: “Don’t Take Your iPod to Church!” Al Mohler: “Adventures Among the Twitterati — Why Use Twitter?“ Bookmark It
A liberal Brown student spends a semester at Liberty University in cognito, and finds that it has significant influence on him. Bookmark It
Dave Doran highlights a comment by Mark Dever. My sense of things is that much of what is being called contextualization and defended on the basis of 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 is really a violation of 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5...
“The new Calvinists constantly extol the Puritans, but they do not want to worship or live as they did. One of the vaunted new conferences is called Resolved, after Jonathan Edwards’ famous youthful Resolutions (seventy searching undertakings)...
“By all accounts, the heyday of Contemporary Christian Music has come and gone. Has anyone noticed?”
“What happened to CCM?” (HT) Bookmark It
Roger Scrutton: “Farewell to Judgment.” Taste and judgment are faculties that we develop: they form part of the great transition from youthful enjoyment to adult discrimination. To teach them is to offer a rite of passage, into the adult way of life...
I apologize for those who have tried to download my paper, “Correcting Categories: the Bible, Music, and Emotion.” I’m not sure why the link was broken, but it is now fixed. Here it is below as well: “Correcting Categories: The Bible, Music, and Emotion” No tag for this post...
Ryan Martin posts the sheet music to this fine hymn...
1,312 views of Scott’s Sovereign Grace/Getty article in 3 days. It certainly is a hot topic. A couple blogs other than the original article are discussing it: “A Thinking Man’s Thoughts” SharperIron No tag for this post.
Just about everywhere I go, I am asked for my thoughts and opinions about using songs produced by Sovereign Grace Ministries, Stuart Townend, and/or Keith and Kristyn Getty...
Dave Doran on1 Thessalonians 5:19-22,/a>. Tags: preaching Related posts
PastorDeBruyn at Slice of Laodicea discusses “Religious Excitements.” So, church leadership designs worship services to be an experience akin to attending a Pacer game. A pervasive “need” seems to exist amongst congregants to get excited over excitement...
Jason Parker discusses who make partake of the Lord’s Supper. Tags: church membership, Communion, Lord's Supper Related posts
Fiction is good for the soul. Good fictional literature grips the imagination and shapes the affections, both important for the life of faith...
Those of you who frequent the site should find these resources valuable. A couple sample albums after the break- New Music for the Church, Vol….
John Piper offers some help on how to break an addiction to entertainment. (HT) Recognizing it is a huge step in the right direction. Seek the Lord earnestly about it. Pray like crazy that God would open your eyes to see wondrous things out of his law...
I have recently been criticized (in a private letter) for quoting men in my book, without qualification, with whom I would otherwise disagree on some matters. Dave Doran offers some helpful comments on this kind of criticism...
Most of the vitriolic disagreement in fundamentalism or broader evangelicalism over Calvinism and what it may or may not lead to (I’ve heard lack of evangelism, CCM, and a whole list of other things) has more to do with misunderstanding of the positions themselves than anything else...
Good points on the physical vs. spiritual nature of some music. Tags: physical Related posts...
Along with Kevin Bauder, who publishes a weekly newsletter (In the Nick of Time), Dave Doran is one of the most articulate, thoughtful, truly conservative fundamentalists I know. I’m thrilled to see that he is now blogging...
The following essay was originally posted on SharperIron, but I thought it worth posting again here for archiving purposes, because I’m still hearing claims that originally lead me to write the essay, and because of recent controversy over Calvinism and the FBFI...
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