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By Roger O'Neel, on November 18th, 2023
In my blog post in September, I gave some thoughts about using a continuum of excellence as a guide to help us improve our ministries and some biblical rationale on why it was important. I want to provide thoughts about some pitfalls of taking this to the extreme and conclude with . . . → Read More: The Continuum of Excellence, Part 2
By Roger O'Neel, on April 26th, 2023
A headline from a recent article proclaims “There is a reason every hit worship song sounds the same.” The article goes on to quote a study in which the authors say, “if you have ever felt like most worship music sounds the same, it may be because the worship music you . . . → Read More: In Defense of Modern Worship Style
By Roger O'Neel, on September 18th, 2017
Over the last year or so, there have been a multitude of blog posts about the decline of congregational singing. I agree with many of them. Reasons given range from too many songs in the congregational repertoire, keys that are too high to sing in, songs that are difficult to sing, . . . → Read More: Congregational Singing
By Roger O'Neel, on November 8th, 2013
Check out my guest posting at Sharefaith.com. In talking to our worship students here at Cedarville University, I believe that there are five trends in worship music for the future. Would love to have your comments here or . . . → Read More: What Does the Future Hold for Worship?
By Roger O'Neel, on December 9th, 2011
We have had some great comments about the first post “Less is More” on both this site and a sister site worshipchat.com. Some of them stole my thunder on what I wanted to share in part 2 of this post. In the first post, I wanted to share the principle of less is more, . . . → Read More: “Less is More” in Practice
By Roger O'Neel, on November 15th, 2011
When I was in second or third grade, I flunked my first math assignment ever. It was an assignment on placing “greater than” or “less than” signs in equations. I was really good at math, but I missed every single problem. I was devastated. The good news was that it was easily fixed. . . . → Read More: Less = More
By Roger O'Neel, on September 30th, 2011
We had Lincoln Brewster on campus last semester and during our lunch conversation, we got off on worship styles. I was asking him about trends he was seeing on the West Coast, and we talked about how worship music is impacted by music of our culture. We also discussed how we typically are stylistically . . . → Read More: Secular artists, current styles and worship music
By Roger O'Neel, on December 8th, 2010
Check out this fun video from North Point Community Church in Atlanta.
Not sure exactly what I think about future of iBands, but I think this is fun! Below are the apps being used that someone posted on Youtube in case they roll off the comment page.
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree:
. . . → Read More: Christmas iMusic
By Roger O'Neel, on November 20th, 2010
A review of “How He Loves” by John Mark McMillan – Part 3
In my previous posts, I sought to find some positive things as well as some critical things to say about this song. In “In Praise of a Sloppy Wet Kiss” I shared a video of the songwriter sharing about the song. . . . → Read More: I don’t have time to maintain any regrets
By Roger O'Neel, on November 19th, 2010
A review of “How He Loves” by John Mark McMillan – Part 2
Ok, in my last post I shared some positive things about the song.
First, let me say that my goal here is not to be critical of someone, or even necessarily of someone’s creative work. I am trying to think . . . → Read More: Blogs like a hurricane, the song is a tree
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