Worship Archives

He loves overflowing praise and exuberance in His children. He just wants it based on something more substantial than the latest results.

You cannot build the culture unless you are prepared to BE the culture. So, these are the 10 Cultural Responsibilities I ask our staff to embrace...

God should look good on us to others. God looked good on Jesus. I’ve always marveled at how Jesus could proclaim absolute truth without compromise...

Worship leaders, sometimes we’re just not with you. But take note. Talk show host Jimmy Fallon can teach you some important points about helping us...

It's true, you know. Forgiveness, loving kindness, mercy, and compassion were given to us by the blood of Jesus — the "Blood of an Innocent One."

Thomas Edison said it best, "Vision without execution is hallucination." I don't want my life to be filled with someday-one-day.

Do hymns with war imagery such as "Onward, Christian Soldiers" actually promote hatred and violence?

The next time you walk out of church tempted to blurt out, “I didn’t like the music this week,” take a moment to consider these few small facts...

Do Millennials prefer traditional or contemporary worship? Perhaps blended? The direct answer is "none of the above."

If we fail to sing in church, we are missing out on a major component of worship.

Is an eternity in hell considered to be punishment or the result of a fate requested by a sinner of a loving God?

One other time I had to clean up a mess worse than this in a church. You will never guess who made it. Jesus.

Hard times come with hard questions, and our cultural context exerts enormous pressure on Christians to affirm common ground at the expense of...

We would never be guilty of making worship more about ourselves than God, would we?

In some ways, giving up hymns is like giving up part of our history. But at the same time, there are some hymns that I wish would be given up!