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Defining Conservatism

The term “conservative” gets thrown around a lot, but do people really know what it means?

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Recovering Intentional Worship by David de Bruyn

Some Things to Consider Including In Your Church Service

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Missions and Music Contextualizing the Gospel

A blog series from Religious Affections Ministries.

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Scott Aniol speaks on the subject of music and worship around the country. Schedule him to speak in your church, plan and lead your worship service, or lead a hymn service.

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Culture and Tradition

On March 2, 2011 By
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Preserving the Truth in our Worship

I argued in the last post that all cultural forms are built upon something that came before, and we call this “tradition.” The implication of this is that all of the various cultural institutions, forms, artistic expressions, media, languages, and systems of thought are what they are today based on hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of [...]

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The Enlightenment and Christian Hymnody

On September 8, 2010 By
This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series The Hymnody of the Christian Church

This far in our journey we have witnessed an almost unbroken stream of Judeo-Christian tradition. From King David to Lutheran composer Johann Crüger (1598-1662) we find a slow and steady cultivation of poetic and musical forms. There were certainly bumps in the road and many changes along the way, yet for around 1800 years the quality [...]

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Correcting Categories, Part 7 – The Nature of Pop

On April 28, 2009 By

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 to be corrected before they can rightly apply the Bible in this area. So my [...]

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Novelty in Worship

On July 17, 2008 By

Some great insight from C. S. Lewis on how novelty in worship prevents true worship from happening.

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