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REFORMATION AND REMEMBRANCE
Worship purposely stirs remembrance. On a personal level the remembrance can take on a variety of forms and move in a broad array of directions. For instance, this past Sunday I visited a church on...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH KEITH GETTY
As follow-up to a recent conference in which Keith Getty and I participated, I wanted to ask Keith questions related to his work and life. Paul: Now that you have moved your American home to “Music...
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SIGNATURE VOICES
How can we begin to measure the lasting effect of the life and work of George Beverly Shea, upon the worship of evangelical churches? Like Buryl Red, though in very different ways these two giants...
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DEFERENCE OVER PREFERENCE
Pastor Justin Wainscott of First Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee is a serious student of Christian worship, a fine pastoral leader for the historic Jackson congregation, and a close personal...
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MARKING TIME
This past week I had another birthday. Turns out I am piling up a bunch of them, as I was so aptly reminded by some of the cards and well-wishes from “friends. As part of my celebration we went to...
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WORSHIP THAT DIVIDES – AGEISM
Caution: I have many friends I love dearly who practice that against which I preach in this post. Most do so because they desire to reach outsiders with the Gospel. Some because they are under...
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Screens AND Hymnals
My good friend and colleague in worship ministry, Mark Edwards is the former Minister of Music of First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee where he served for more than thirty years. He was...
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FLAG-WAVING WORSHIP?
The nation’s capitol on 4th of July – yes, it has been on my bucket list for awhile, and this year in which The Star Spangled Banner, written in September of 1814, celebrates its 200th birthday,...
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WORSHIP NOW AND THEN
You may recall the 1980’s TV comedy series, What’s Happening Now. Baby Boomers will remember even further back to the old Flip Wilson TV show, and one of his whimsical characters, Reverend Leroy,...
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THE JOY OF SERVING IN HARMONY
Last Friday I was meeting with a group of worship music ministers and pastors discussing the state of congregational singing in churches and more specifically its relation to revitalizing worship....
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SHUT UP AND WORSHIP
The world is noisy. Just as we are consumed with our incessant busy-ness, we seem likewise to be obsessed with filling every moment with sound. And frankly much of that sound is loud, even to the...
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