In this podcast, Scott answers several questions that have been posted in the suggestion box on www.religiousaffections.org, including: Granted aesthetic values r universals rooted n… Read More »Podcast: Q&A – April 20, 2010
I have received several e-mails asking if parts or all custom writing paper of this series may be used in church newsletters, bulletin inserts, etc.… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Full Series
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… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 6
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… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 5
My song is love unknown, My Savior’s love to me; Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, that… Read More »My Song is Love Unknown
Conservative Christians will be committed to worship forms that foster ordinate affection toward God. Commitment to the Regulative Principles of Worship solves the question of… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 3
We recently received an excellent question submitted through the “Article Suggestions” module in the right column of this site: “What areas of aesthetics are preferences… Read More »Isn't there any room for preference?
The following is taken from Sound Worship: a Guide to Making Musical Choices in a Noisy World. Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Source of… Read More »Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder, Part 5: The Judgment of Beauty
I’m excited to announce the coming publication of my new book, Sound Worship: A Guide to Making Musical Choices in a Noisy World! This book… Read More »New book coming in January: Sound Worship
I’d like to highlight a few articles by Michael Horton, articles that were among the first to significantly shape my thinking on worship and music… Read More »Michael S. Horton – The First Significant Influence in My Journey Towards Radical Conservatism
Externalism is a sneaky error in which we insist that the outward appearance reveals the heart. Or, another way of saying it is that inward,… Read More »Externalism
I’ve been doing some reading recently from both Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney. In most ways, these men, their philosophies, theologies, and practices are polar… Read More »Why trying to emulate Edwards may actually be emulating Finney
From Revivals of Religion (CBN University Press), 1978. Men are so sluggish, there are so many things to lead their minds off from religion and to… Read More »Charles Finney on "excitements"
I’ve heard a lot of teaching recently on what makes a good sacred congregational song, and among qualities listed, “accessibility” is inevitably among them. I… Read More »Accessible vs. Immediate
Joy. What exactly is joy? I can say that I experienced the emotion of joy while riding a roller coaster. It’s this thrilling enthusiasm that… Read More »Is worship like riding a roller coaster?
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… Read More »Train Your Child's Heart Before His Head
Fiction is good for the soul. Good fictional literature grips the imagination and shapes the affections, both important for the life of faith. For that… Read More »Two Modern Novel Recommendations
If the Church today is going to be able to rightly apply biblical principles to music and worship, it must recover important categories that are… Read More »Correcting Categories, Part 10 – Conclusion
Today, the influences of Modernism, Revivalism, and Charismaticism in the Church’s understanding of the purpose and function of music in worship cannot be overestimated. First,… Read More »Correcting Categories, Part 9 – the Church Today
A Radical Change Protestants have historically been suspect of Dionysian forms of music, especially in sacred contexts, because they recognized that spiritual life resides in… Read More »Correcting Categories, Part 8 – Music and Emotion in the Church