5 Tips For Effective Public Scripture Reading
Scripture reading is one of the most important tasks for any worship leader, pastor or volunteer reader on Sundays. This worship practice might seem easy enough when compared to the skill needed to...
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Look & Live (Worship or Die)
One of the clearest pictures to me of what worship is like and what a worship leader does is found in a story in the Old Testament. In Numbers 21 God’s people are wandering in the wilderness. They are...
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Album Review: King of Love by Austin Stone Worship
King of Love (release date Oct. 22) is the latest CD from Aaron Ivey and the folks from Austin Stone, who in their own words, “desire to write and sing songs focused on the centrality of Jesus Christ...
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Beneath the Canopy: An Interview with John Warren from the Village Church
The Village Church in Dallas, Texas is helping shape the singing of many churches around the country. Releasing six albums over the last three years, they are providing a consistent stream of songs for...
View ArticleThe Essentials of Congregational Worship
What are the non-negotiable elements of gospel-centered congregational worship—regardless of context? In a new roundtable video, Paul Tripp, Mike Cosper, and Matt Boswell discuss this important...
View Article6 Ideas for Writing Songs from Scripture
In Part I and II of this series, we talked about why it was important for songwriters to write from scripture, and how to do it faithfully, creatively and regularly (make some goals!). In today’s...
View ArticleComing to the Intersection of Art and Theology
I want to begin with some questions that have come out of many years of intellectual struggle. And I pose them knowing that I too stand under their scrutiny. In the press of your work; in the blush...
View ArticleFree to be Ordinary
At times I long and clamor to be extraordinary and to have more influence than God has allowed me to have at any one moment in time. Sometimes it’s driven by the hope of gospel expansion but many...
View ArticleRhythms of Grace
In a new interview, Mark Mellinger sits down with Mike Cosper, pastor of worship and arts at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky, to discuss his new book Rhythms of Grace. Through this...
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Exult in the Saviour’s Birth: New Advent Song from D.A. Carson and Matt Boswell
Advent is a season of expectant waiting, reflection, and hope-filled wonder. It’s also a time when the foundations of our faith are set to melodies that prompt our hearts to sing. To celebrate Advent,...
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Why Celebrate Advent?
Once upon a time, there was a season in the church year known as “Advent.” The word comes to us from the Latin for “coming.” The purpose of the season was to look toward the coming of Christ to earth;...
View ArticleHave You Forgotten One Key Person In Your Advent-Christmas Planning?
It’s Advent season once again. For the next few weeks our churches will sing carols and recite text about Israel’s longing for deliverance, and the promised coming of Messiah. We’ll sing about the...
View ArticleLet Men Their Songs Employ
If ever we come close to living real life with a soundtrack, it is during Christmastime. For some folks this may be a part of the magic of the season. You know, not being able to go anywhere without...
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TGC Interviews Keith Getty on “In Christ Alone”
This year the modern hymn “In Christ Alone” went through a media whirlwind sparked by certain doctrinal positions taught though its lyrics. Refused by the PCUSA but promoted in The Economist, hymnody,...
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We Will Proclaim
When I came on staff as a worship leader at my church in 2004, we had a beautiful campus with a modern sanctuary, a historic chapel (where George Washington had worshipped, really…), classroom and...
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Interview with Matt Mason from Brook Hills Church
It’s such an encouragement to see more and more children’s resources coming out that are packed with biblical truth. That’s a good description of the new children’s album put out by Brook Hills Music...
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Sing a New Song at Christmas
After four hundred years of silence the heavens and earth break forth in an epic display of ’new song” (Psalm 96, Isaiah 42). And when the scriptures sing we better pay attention! From the Song of...
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Top Five Books of 2013 for Worship Leaders
Reading is an act of worship. Some of the most profound moments of worship I have had over the last few years have been not while singing songs, but while reading books. It is often joked about that...
View ArticleShall We Sing of Sanctification?
A character in Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours, uses two analogies for “the realm of the duped and the simpleminded.” One is “Christians with acoustic guitars.” While this...
View ArticleSongs from Scripture Interview with Josh Garrels, Dustin Kensrue, Robbie...
In Part I, II , and III of this series, we talked about writing songs from scripture both creatively and faithfully, giving specific ideas and writing prompts to help get you started. In today‘s post,...
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