When he was in Houston last spring, Fred Harrell made a comment about church marketing that has stuck with me. Advertising doesn’t work. None of that stuff really works anymore. Secular people see it as nothing more than hype. The quote has haunted me because it intersects with where I live. I follow a lot [...]
I would imagine that everyone who knows the biblical reference where “Psalms and Hymns” comes from asks the same question. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. [...]
Michael Spencer (whom I quoted last week in my sermon) has brought to my attention an article that’s come out of the Australian Anglican church. See The Slow Death of Congregational Singing and Michael’s riff on that article, Riffs: The Briefing on “The Slow Death of Congregational Singing.” Here’s a quote from his reflection on [...]
Mark Galli writes concerning the physicality of liturgical worship: The liturgy does not point us to “the Christ spirit,” “the ground of all being,” “the Universe,” or any other amorphous, abstract spiritual entity. Instead it points us to the one who did not think Pure Spirit a thing to be grasped. He who created flesh [...]
