This article was titled 10 Things I Did Not Do that Improved My Congregation’s Singing and it takes the negative to achieve a positive outcome path. These points are all helpful, with some more relevant in our situation than others. The point is that there are pressures on church music and its presentation to conform …
Among a number of suggestions about cultivating congregational singing in corporate worship Bob Smietana suggests: Tell church members what they will be singing ahead of time Let church members know in advance what songs will be sung on Sunday and provide links to the music in a church newsletter, email, or post on the church’s …
Mark Johnson writes about the paradox of people who love and follow Jesus not using the songs that Jesus loved and used in his own life as part of their worship: In conclusion: The greatest reason for loving the psalms and for using them for worship and to aid us in the ongoing task of …
In which the popular and pervasive fallacy that Martin Luther brought tunes sung in drinking establishments to church and set them to hymn words is taken out behind the woodshed and given a paddling. (Again. This story won’t die.) From Aigner’s article: Here’s what we do know about the Martin Luther situation. Luther was obviously …
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