Christianity Today has posted a good piece on social awareness and activism among evangelical Christian musicians. It briefly chronicles the movement and also draws an important distinction: …something more than endorsement is happening in contemporary Christian music. Artists are directly...
Paul Baloche has a good piece contrasting concerts vs. worship leading in the October issue of Worship Leader (see widget below): At the end of the day, God is not calling us to perform on Sunday mornings but rather calling...
Given at Catalyst 2009 in Atlanta, where he received an award for 50 years in ministry: Whatever you do, do more with others and less alone Whenever you do it, emphasize quality not quantity. Wherever you go, do it the...
When have you heard Moses, the Apostle John, and John Calvin quoted favorably on a national news broadcast? Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle does so on ABC’s Nightline, during a remarkable story on idolatry. Click here to...
The poor have the gospel preached unto them (Matthew 11:5, KJV) …it is one delightful mark of Christ’s dispensation, that he aims first at the poor. It was wise in him to do so. If we would fire a building,...
In too many churches, I think, worship is just the prelude to the sermon…the implication being that we’ll get past all the preliminaries and we’ll get to the meat of the service, which is the sermon. What I want people...
Since this year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth (which is a big deal in many circles), I pirated this comment from our Field Blog: While living in the city of Geneva (now in Switzerland), Calvin made sure...
If there are so many Christians today, why don’t we see a greater impact on culture? Mike Erre offers this explanation: One of the foremost characteristics of modern American culture is reductionism. We love to reduce big things to little...
Atheist Matthew Parris writes a solid defense for Christian involvement in African for the UK Times On-Line that, if you haven’t seen, you should. The gist: Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism...
Pastor & author Voddie Baucham has an interesting response to this question: I have a very high view of the role of the worship leader. I view leading worship as a sort of pastoral responsibility to which one must be...