I don’t like to talk about things I am not doing because of COVID. I prefer to talk about how I am keeping busy, how I am staying ok. It’s much more constructive. But it isn’t always true. Last week, I loaded up the church livestream on YouTube, and they were singing. Not only were […]
Posts in the church music category:
Worship Wars and the Content of Music
This morning I read a post whose point was about worship becoming performance-oriented rather than encouraging participation. The post began with a powerful anecdote concerning an elderly lady who could not hear the lyrics. I identified with this dilemma. Of course, I would I cannot see the lyrics printed on screen. If the instruments drown […]
discovering the power of hymns
Throughout my childhood, adolescence, and much of my young adulthood, I spent so much time trying to puzzle out the words while other people worshiped in song that I really did not understand the depth of the music–no time to ponder the theological implications when you are one, two, or even three steps behind and […]
meditation on a hymn
Come Thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, Mount of Thy unchanging love. Here I raise mine Ebenezer; Hither by Thy help […]
It Is Well
Hebrew… The gift that keeps on giving… I love it when that happens! Last week in church, we sang “It Is Well”–all three verses. Singing “My sin, not in part but the whole / Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,” I was deeply moved and thought back to my discussion […]
Through
When I saw what lay before me, “Lord,” I cried, “what will I do?” I thought He would just remove it, but He gently led me through. Without fire there’s no refining; without pain, no relief. Without flood there’s no rescue; without testing, no belief. –Gloria Gaither, “Through” This song always tears me up when […]