From a footnote in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: I am unaware of any contest for “worst expression ever added to the church’s vocabulary”. If there were such a contest, however, my nomination would be this: reaching people for Christ. This ambiguous expression (which never appears in Scripture) is redolent with positive connotative content, whle …
In the book ‘Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns’, T. David Gordon questions why being ‘contemporary’ has become the great aim of segments of the present day church, when that aim that has never been shared by any previous generation of the church. Is there a good reason why Johnny and this present generation must junk …
From David Robertson, minister of St. Peters’ Free Presbyterian Church, Dundee. Robertson notes that many are observing the ongoing debate within his own denomination about whether they will allow the singing of material not sourced from the Bible in their worship services. What this post is about though is an issue that Robertson notes in …
Yesterday I downloaded a copy of ‘How Sweet The Sound – Remembering Great Hymns Of The Faith’, produced by Covenant Life Church, through the Noise Trade site. This explanation about the project from the Covenant Life website: In 2008 and 2009, we as a church family spent 10 months devoted to learning great hymns of …
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