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Can Rap be Christian? Evaluating Hip Hop
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 7:50 in Featured | viewed 1,275 times and users have made 86 comments so far
Today we finally arrive at a discussion of the nature of rap itself. This post will be beneficial for you, however, only if you accept the following assertions on made on Monday: Man is completely depraved and thus cannot trust his... (Continue reading)
Does Music Matter?
Written on 21 Sep, 2009 at 8:00 in Articles on Music, Editor's Picks, Featured | viewed 572 times and users have made 8 comments so far
Does music matter to God? Should it matter to us? We are living in a day when people — even Christians — see music as unimportant. Enjoyable, yes; but necessary or important? No. We see this kind of thinking all around us.... (Continue reading)
McMusic in McChurch
Written on 29 Jun, 2009 at 9:12 in News & Reviews | viewed 29 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Terry Mattingly outlines a brief history of “McChurch.” Notice especially the connections he makes with the music of McChurch, and especially where it started. (HT) ... (Continue reading)
“If you want to be relevant, say, for prostitutes, don’t watch a movie with a lot of tumbles in a brothel.”
Written on 25 Jun, 2009 at 17:13 in News & Reviews | viewed 74 times and users have made 0 comments so far
John Piper offers some excellent counsel regarded how we should view TV and movies and whether we need to immerse ourselves in pop culture in order to contextualize. I think relevance in preaching hangs very little on watching movies, and I... (Continue reading)
A Tale of Two Song Leaders
Written on 18 Jun, 2009 at 21:06 in Featured, Song Leading | viewed 388 times and users have made 7 comments so far
About a year ago I posted a piece on leading congregational singing; I compared two conferences, one in which I was privileged to plan and lead the services, and another I had recently attended. I made some somewhat controversial statements about... (Continue reading)
A Well-Known Calvinist Repudiates the Charismaticism and Worldly Worship of “New Calvinism.”
Written on 9 Jun, 2009 at 13:10 in Articles on Theology, Articles on Worship, Featured | viewed 1,358 times and users have made 61 comments so far
“The new Calvinists constantly extol the Puritans, but they do not want to worship or live as they did. One of the vaunted new conferences is called Resolved, after Jonathan Edwards’ famous youthful Resolutions (seventy searching undertakings). But the... (Continue reading)
“Ask what you’d like to be doing in the season of life, or hours or days, leading up to meeting Christ.”
Written on 25 May, 2009 at 7:39 in News & Reviews | viewed 19 times and users have made 0 comments so far
John Piper offers some help on how to break an addiction to entertainment. (HT) Recognizing it is a huge step in the right direction. Seek the Lord earnestly about it. Pray like crazy that God would open your eyes to see wondrous... (Continue reading)
Correcting Categories, Part 6 – Dionysian vs. Apollonian
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 12:00 in Featured | viewed 416 times and users have made 0 comments so far
My goal in this series is to help believers apply the Bible to their musical choices in life and worship. My contention is, however, that believers today approach the issue of musical choices with certain errant foundational presuppositions that need... (Continue reading)
“When it comes to the entertainment choices of the vast majority of Christians in the vast majority of our churches my strong impression is that there is little difference between what we take in and what the rest of the world goes to for a good time.”
Written on 15 Apr, 2009 at 10:26 in News & Reviews | viewed 39 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Kevin DeYoung on entertainment. We are so used to settling for sex that isn’t that graphic, and language that isn’t too bad, and visual stimulation that isn’t so much that we have become blind to our own worldliness. HT ... (Continue reading)
Postman, Blogs and “context-free information”
Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 8:33 in News & Reviews | viewed 41 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Tim Challies shows the limits to blogs as news-sources. ... (Continue reading)
