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I have heard many times from people who have the noble objective of recovering a God-centeredness in worship that our music is not for people–it’s for God.
Now, I understand and applaud the sentiment behind a statement like this. If by this statement they mean that God should be the center and focus of our worship, then [...]
Continue Reading →I have suggested in this series that in order to preserve the truth in our worship, we must be concerned about how we are shaping the imagination in the presentation of biblical truth. This is no more important than with our children. It is my fear that most Christians do not recognize that before a child [...]
Continue Reading →Editor’s note: the following essay appears as the foreword to Scott Aniol’s book, Worship in Song: a Biblical Approach to Music and Worship. This highlights some of the perspective from which Kevin Bauder will be teaching his upcoming tuition-free class: “Knowing and Loving God.”
Worship wars. It’s a new [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s the reality: those of us blogging here fully realize that our positions are not popular. Not popular, I suppose, greatly underestimates the matter: for many Christians today, our positions are not even fathomable—it is impossible for them to believe that anyone could hold a position as outlandish, and even as offensive, as ours. And [...]
Continue Reading →In order to conserve transcendent ideas about God, conservatives are committed to worship regulated by God’s Word, and they are also committed to discerning between true religious affections and mere physical appetites in worship.
Such discernment is difficult, however, because all of us are products of our culture. If a distinction between religious affections and [...]
Continue Reading →While I can’t offer a thumbs-up or thumbs-down review yet, this looks interesting.
Continue Reading →This will be a quick post, as I’m in the midst of significant transition. This past week, on a flight, I had the opportunity to read Arnold Steinhardt’s Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony. Steinhardt spent over three decades as first violin for the Continue Reading →
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