I’ve had a bit of fun with the musicians at mgpc about the whole ‘spirit keys’ thing. Music playing in the background during preaching, prayers (seldom the announcements, I note). Bob Kauflin rhetorically asks ‘Should We Play Music Behind People Praying?’ I say ‘rhetorically’ because his answer is pretty much ‘yes’ and then he goes …
Congratulations to Michael Wharton on the release of the web-based version of Rejoice Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. I know Mike’s put a lot of work over a significant period of time setting this up. He probably had support from the national Worship and Aids to Devotion Committee. (Or at the very least, …
There is a continuing unhelpful tendency among some Christians to call times of singing during corporate gathering ‘worship’ in a way that seems to imply that other actions done during gathering are not worship. Even more unhelpful is the tendency to treat singing as a means of experiencing the presence of God in an almost …
From Christianity Today Online comes an article about ‘The Hymns That Keep On Going’ accompanied by the chart below listing twenty-seven hymns that have remained constant inclusions in various hymnals and their subsequent editions over scores of years. Interesting to me is the absence of ‘Amazing Grace’, and, to a lesser extent ‘And Can It …
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