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This Thanksgiving think about worshipping God in song

"The Hymn Lady" reflects upon Sweet Hour of Prayer and how it teaches us to relieve our burdens through prayer... even if we think we don't know how to pray.

I recently heard a song that exemplified so many years of mine. For the First Time, Again speaks of a weary heart begging Jesus to help him feel as he had felt that first time of coming to his Lord.

There’s something refreshing and real about worship music that emerges in the context of a real, palpable local church.

Does the unfinished state of a great artistic project negate the parts that are already finished and beautiful?

For many churches, the biggest requirement for a “worship set” is novelty. We’re aiming for an experience. So we put together a worship service that is more influenced by the latest hits on Christian radio than by theology or history. It’s like eating steak on a paper plate.

Contemporary hymn Lead Me to the Cross suggests an alternative to noise addiction.

Unexamined worship is not worth offering.

Like his 2004 effort titled Facedown, Matt Redman recorded 10,000 Reasons during a live worship event.

In our day, songs are not just songs.

Most of the songs that are meaningful to Christians were born during a dark period in someone’s life.

This is worship music meant not for the cavernous spaces of arenas filled with thousands of worshippers, but more at home in a cozy gathering of friends around a fire.

Worship leader Travis Cottrell talks about what God really expects.

As a little girl, 'playing church' was great fun and a delightful way to pass an afternoon. Playing church is, however, a pathetic and meaningless way to pass a lifetime.

Never afraid to take a risk, musically and otherwise, Derek Webb offers up Feedback, a unique instrumental project inspired by the Lord’s Prayer.

As a butterfly is transformed in the hiddenness of a cocoon, so our lives are transformed in and through the hiddenness of God's Spirit in us.

It was just a matter of time until someone parodied Rebecca Black's viral video sensation,"Friday." And now Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL, has produced "Sunday."

What does one do when death comes so quickly? Without the knowledge that in Jesus Christ there is no death, the response would be bathed in hopelessness and despair.

Here for You captures the voices of over 20,000 college students singing along with worship leaders Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, David Crowder Band, Kristian Stanfill, Matt Redman and Charlie Hall.