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THE VOLUME OF WORSHIP – WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUMAN VOICES?
I am attending a conference headlined by popular Christian speaking personalities and worship bands. Speakers are on message in keeping with books they have written and positions they have taken with...
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LET’S BLOW UP WORSHIP
Striving to give worship consumers what they want the American church has far too often continued down the pointless road of making worship more and more about us and less and less about God. Oh, no...
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MANAGING WORSHIP
This is not a “how to manage your worship” article. Rather, it is a “if you are controlling it then is it really Christian worship?” article. One of the most fundamental issues at stake in Christian...
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WHAT’S GOING ON OUT THERE? WORSHIP VIEWED FROM THE PLATFORM
I have spent many Sundays on the platform of a church sanctuary looking out over a congregation that has presumably gathered for worship. Some Sundays as the people sang, as love for one another was...
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Labor Day Prayer Song
Though the roots of Labor Day are found in the organized labor movement, the holiday has come to serve a broader concept. Labor Day is a time of celebrating the privilege we have to work. I have...
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WORSHIP IN THE EVANGELICAL TRADITION – IT’S PERSONAL
I grew up the son of a Baptist Pastor. One of the things I learned early on was that Baptists believed in the necessity of a personal relationship with Jesus as Savior. At its core Christianity was...
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SHUT UP AND WORSHIP
The world is noisy. Just as we are consumed with our incessant busy-ness, we seem likewise to be obsessed with filling every moment with sound. And frankly much of that sound is loud, even to the...
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NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN? WHAT ABOUT WORSHIP?
There’s nothing new under the sun. If so then why do so many churches talk about their worship and worship leader using terms they seem to think will give onlookers the impression that what happens in...
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WORSHIP FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Imagine what it would be like if you had one of those out-of-body experiences, but over a worship service. Instead of hovering at the ceiling in an emergency room where you look down on your body laid...
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IS WORSHIP REALLY ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE?
How often do you hear these two words used together, “worship” and “experience?” Churches consistently promote their Sunday gatherings using this terminology. Senior Pastors and search committees...
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