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“God should be reverenced as visibly present”: Edwards on singing
Written on 29 Jun, 2009 at 11:14 in News & Reviews | viewed 38 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Ryan Martin highlights an excellent quote from Edwards. Edwards makes the following acute observation about singing in his Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival. Note not only his connection of irreverence to the third commandment, but his insistence that reverence has an... (Continue reading)
“”Lots of singing, silliness, and fun, and, of course, with a simple message.”
Written on 5 Aug, 2009 at 14:42 in News & Reviews | viewed 66 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Rev Bev, the belly dancing vicar, and her unorthodox (in more ways than one) church via Blackpool Today. ... (Continue reading)
“‘Worship Leader’ … is misleadingly restrictive.”
Written on 5 Mar, 2009 at 13:26 in News & Reviews | viewed 47 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Larry Rogier posts quotes from Don Carson. ... (Continue reading)
“(T)he music of God’s people is not private music.”
Written on 3 Aug, 2009 at 9:47 in News & Reviews | viewed 54 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Douglas Wilson on the evangelistic effects of Christian music. ... (Continue reading)
“… not a novice …”
Written on 19 Aug, 2009 at 9:10 in News & Reviews | viewed 102 times and users have made 0 comments so far
“When we started Mars Hill, I was in my midtwenties, with a handfull of people and about six years of faith in Christ to draw on.” Mark Driscoll in Confessions of a Reformission Rev. (p. 9). ... (Continue reading)
“… Right arm! Left Arm! …”
Written on 6 Apr, 2009 at 20:25 in News & Reviews | viewed 107 times and users have made 1 comment so far
Ben Wright asks if Christians can sing “Father Abraham.” I wonder if we should. ... (Continue reading)
“…(P)ersonal taste plays a much smaller role in this than many of us would like to believe.”
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 7:00 in News & Reviews | viewed 36 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Douglas Wilson ponders what give a congregation “A Right To An Opinion” regarding music ... (Continue reading)
“…not a lot of textual underpinning for clapping as an expression of praise.”
Written on 30 Jun, 2009 at 7:54 in News & Reviews | viewed 59 times and users have made 1 comment so far
Chuck King, music director at College Church in Wheaton, IL. No, I am stuck with the feeling that people applaud because, as with so many other areas of public discourse, we have lost a greater vocabulary of praise. I don’t think... (Continue reading)
“A rich interior life cannot result in a poverty-stricken musical expression.”
Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 8:26 in News & Reviews | viewed 373 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Douglas Wilson on “Instruments in Worship” ... (Continue reading)
“Aniol’s words and Scripture helped me once again carefully evaluate my motives concerning worship.”
Written on 30 Jun, 2009 at 9:50 in News & Reviews | viewed 63 times and users have made 0 comments so far
A Review of Worship in Song. ... (Continue reading)
