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After considering the following theological and historical underpinnings of contemporary worship, consider the theological positions of those most influential in evangelical worship today.
From W. Robert Godfrey, “Worship and the Emotions,” in Give Praise to God, Philip Graham Ryken, et.al. (Phillipsburg: P & R Pub, 2003), 368-9:
When emotions are misused, there is [...]
Continue Reading →Children learn to worship God primarily through participating in rightly ordered worship.
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Any concerned, Christian parent is committed to training his or her child to be obedient [...]
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I have a difficult time excusing our careless and irreverent attitudes concerning our Lord and Savior. I feel strongly that worshipping Christians should never be guilty of using a theological word or expression in a popular or careless sense unless we explain what we are doing. It is only [...]
Continue Reading →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 what I observed in the leadership of that conference. My primary contention [...]
Continue Reading →Let us offer to God acceptable worship,
with reverence and awe,
for our God is a consuming fire.
My fellow song leaders and pastors,
If we find value in having song leaders (and I am not certain they are always needed), must we make a mockery of the worship of our [...]
Continue Reading →Thomas Clay continues his series with some helpful advice.
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