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Conservative Christianity, at its heart, is committed to preserving transcendent ideas rooted in the very nature and character of God. It seeks to accomplish this goal through the conservative of a tradition that has nurtured the expression of those ideas for ages. If our goal as conservative Christians is to conserve biblical worship and continue to [...]
Continue Reading →So where does this leave us today? I will conclude with several brief suggestions of we should be striving toward in our choices of hymns for corporate worship.
Recognize the importance of form. Form shapes content. As we evaluate the hymns that we sing, we must not be content that our hymns simply say the [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday my son, Caleb, and I were listening to a recording of orchestral arrangements of hymns; Caleb likes to pick out instruments he hears and name the hymn tune when he recognizes it.
At one point, while we were listening to an arrangement of “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,” the arrangement had a transitional [...]
Continue Reading →How can we conserve biblical worship? We can conserve biblical worship by regulating our worship by God’s Word, by learning to distinguish between ordinate affection and appetite and choosing worship forms that foster those affections for God, by cultivating those worship forms that [...]
Continue Reading →Conservative Christians will be committed to transmitting these worship forms to future generations.
This leads to my final point of discussion. If our goal as conservative Christians is to conserve biblical worship and continue to cultivate worship forms that best foster ordinate affection for God, then we must be committed to transmitting these worship forms [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been discussing the topic of teaching children to worship here for some time, and now I’d like to get your feedback.
I’ve offered suggestions and examples of things I’ve done both at home and in our church to encourage God-centered worship among children, particularly with helping them learn and love classic hymns.
What are [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve just finished a week of vacation with family, so I’m getting caught up on e-mails, comments, etc. There were some good questions and comments on my post on teaching children hymns, so I thought I’d follow up here a bit.
First, I stumbled across the philosophy paper that I distributed to all [...]
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