I used to not think much about idol worship, but I am coming to believe that this may be one of the most detrimental factors in our worship culture today. Certainly we don’t have physical idols that we worship in our Christian churches, but we have things that vie for our attention which, . . . → Read More: Idol Worship
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Last week marked the end of our 4th Annual Worship Camp at Cedarville University. We had 65 campers who were from various churches around the country. They auditioned for the staff and were placed in 6 worship bands with others they had never met. Even a week later, I still wonder at the . . . → Read More: My Heart is Full A sense of inadequacy can be your best friend. In today’s world, our society sees itself as a modern culture complete with all of the conveniences of modern life, and for much of the western world, comforts afforded by freedom and prosperity. As a result, we have very little need for God’s help or . . . → Read More: Inadequacy I had a student ask me a great question. The question was essentially this: how is a worship leader different than someone who just plays song after song (basically a worship disc jockey)? Insightful question, as I am afraid many worship leaders today are glorified worship DJ’s. The job of a disk . . . → Read More: Worship DJ? I have recently become friends with Jon Nicol of worshipteamcoach.com. Jon gave me a free copy of his most recent book Eight Words before The Cross, and he has offered me a chance to give away 10 free copies. If you will leave a comment on this post with your email address, I will . . . → Read More: Good Friday Book giveaway and Webinar Announcement I feel compelled to write one more post on relevance as it is such a driving force in our American Christian culture, usually for the negative. I see some trends in today’s evangelical church that are troubling. Before I begin, I do want to issue a disclaimer: I don’t think we are to . . . → Read More: Relevance Revisited Last week I read a post that I have been thinking about a lot. It resounded with me and was a great encouragement to me and my wife. The article is “Is Your Church Too Cool?” by Rachel Held Evans. She had me in the opening paragraphs: How a pursuit of relevance can undermine . . . → Read More: Uncool is the new “cool” I have always been a strong proponent of making sure that the texts of our worship songs are theologically sound. One of the driving principles of my personal philosophy for the use of music in worship is what I call the “Musician’s 3:16” Col. 3:16: Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, . . . → Read More: Putting Words in Their Mouths 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 |
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