Conservative Christians will be committed to worship forms that have been nurtured within the community of faith. Such discernment is difficult, however, because all of… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 4
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
Conservative Christians will commit to worship regulated by the Word of God. Ever since Cain and Abel, God’s people have been asking, “What is the… Read More »How Can We Conserve Biblical Worship? Part 2
There is a Conservative Worship Symposium scheduled for the Metro-Detroit area on Thursday, March 11, 2010! It will be hosted by First Baptist Church in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Registration for the symposium will… Read More »Metro-Detroit Conservative Worship Symposium, March 11, 2010
Introducing the Conservative Worship Symposium, a one-day, regional gathering of conservative pastors, music directors, and other church leaders. The symposium, held in several regions of the country… Read More »A Conservative Worship Symposium is coming to a city near you!
There has been a lot of talk in recent years on the internet and at conferences about why young people are rejecting fundamentalism and/or a… Read More »Misdiagnosis
Are “Christian” and “rap” mutually exclusive? Mark Dever’s answer after a 9Marks interview with Shai Linne and Curtis Allen (Voice): “Hardly.” This from one of… Read More »Can Rap be Christian? The Presuppositions
Music philosophy is not a separation issue of the same kind of level as heterodoxy or flagrant, known sin. Probably one of the most common… Read More »Is Music a Separation Issue?
Straw Men in the Music/Worship Debate One of the most dangerous, yet easy pitfalls one can fall into when discussing music/worship issues is to misrepresent… Read More »I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow my imaginary argument down!
Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice, by Bryan Chapell. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. 307 pp. $24.99. “Structures tell stories.” So opens Bryan… Read More »Book Review: Christ-Centered Worship by Bryan Chapell
I am thrilled to announce a new web site that we have been developing that seeks to help pastors, church music directors, and other church… Read More »Introducing ChurchMusicFiles.com!
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… Read More »Correcting Categories, Part 7 – The Nature of Pop
In Acts 17 we have the account of three cities, each of which has very different kinds of people, and we read a record of… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 2 – Defining Biblical Contextualization
There is a popular thought today in evangelicalism that says that if we as Christians are going to reach unbelievers around us, we need to… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 1 – Introduction
Kurtz, Dean. God’s Word, the Final Word on Worship and Music, A Biblical Study. Self-published, 2008. 364 pp. $15.59. Purchase: Amazon ISBNs: 1606473239 / 978-1606473238… Read More »Book Review: God's Word, the Final Word on Worship and Music, A Biblical Study