To Use or Lose the Music Stands: Is That the Question?
December 4, 2017
In the past few years, a number of voices have emerged encouraging church musicians to lose their music stands. I don’t think anyone is
In the past few years, a number of voices have emerged encouraging church musicians to lose their music stands. I don’t think anyone is
This past May, our youngest child, McKenzie, graduated from Boyce College with a degree in biblical studies, focusing on music and worship. After 4 1/2
In recent decades ambient sounds have become omnipresent in church gatherings. Meetings start with a synth swell and every song after that is connected to the next with musical glue. Synth
A wise missionary knows that preaching the gospel to a different culture requires contextualizing your message. The words we use don’t automatically translate to a new
Last Thursday at 10:06 AM, Brian Chesemore, a pastor at Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville, texted me and the other pastors. He informed us that one of our members,
Not too long ago a friend who leads the music in his church mentioned to me that his pastor wanted their meetings to be
Many pastors, music leaders, and production personnel are breathing a deep sigh of relief after this past weekend. After all the planning, strategizing, prayer, preparation, and
Last week Donald Miller, probably best known as the author of Blue Like Jazz, wrote a blog post called, “I Don’t Worship God by
I’ve been thinking about the use of generic syllables in congregational singing for a while now. It’s not a new phenomenon. I remember
More than once I’ve heard Christians insist that worship should be fun, or act like they had a responsibility to prove that Christians knew
Recently I posted on Twitter: The fact that Psalms doesn’t include a soundtrack or notation clues us in to what God values most in
Specifically, I haven’t learned anything from Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) about leading congregational worship that I didn’t learn first in Scripture. But in
