Uncool is the new “cool”

By Roger O'Neel, on January 26th, 2012

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”

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Secular artists, current styles and worship music

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

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Sinful to sing hymns?

By Roger O'Neel, on February 14th, 2011

A story came across the news wires just before the holidays. The Free Church of Scotland has traditionally allowed only a cappella settings of Psalms for congregational use. This has been the policy for the last 110 years. A vote in late November saw the church narrowly pass (98 to 84) a change in . . . → Read More: Sinful to sing hymns?

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I Don’t Like Your Christians

By Roger O'Neel, on October 27th, 2010

I saw a bumper sticker last week that I have been pondering. It read like this:

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

This bothered me on a couple of levels as I thought about it. On one level, I sought to discredit the . . . → Read More: I Don’t Like Your Christians

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