On Worship: To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the ‘performance’ (whether Byrd or heavy rock), would be like Moses coming upon a burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it. NT Wright For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church, [...]
In his book, For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church, NT Wright remarks on the Trinity: [W]hen you stand in front of this picture [the doctrine of the Trinity], the picture not of a strait-laced doctrine but of the humanized God, you realize, with Isaiah, that all geography, politics, religion, [...]
Zach Nielsen wrote today about singing the Gospel in a minor key. Quoting from Steven J. Nichols: For many American evangelicals, life is always like having spring or summer without winter or fall. Or always Easter and never Good Friday. Not everything, however—in life or in the Bible—plays out in a major key… A theology [...]
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I found Samuel Medley’s hymn “O what amazing words of grace” in the Gadsby Hymnal (#987). Here is a new arrangement of that hymn, along with a refrain that I’ve written. My goal was to write something in the vein of Christ Community Church in Franklin, TN. It’s probably the most conventional sounding arrangement that [...]
Here is another Reason arrangement. This is a modern setting of Ralph Vaughan William’s tune King’s Weston for the hymn “At the Name of Jesus” (words by Caroline M. Noel). This is my absolute favorite hymn tune in the original setting and hopefully this arrangement does it justice. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
