“Worship Music” Articles

A personal brand should be a byproduct of ministry, but too many worship leaders hope that ministry is a byproduct of brand.

Our worship should teach us to long for more than our individual salvation, but to long for the redemption of the whole world.

For contemporary worship music with a fresh musical style, Out of the Sea by Heritage Hill is a welcome collection of songs.

Ideally, it seems, worship music should be written and performed by attractive young people sporting angular haircuts, tight T-shirts, and tattoos.

As the organ suits a stone church with stained glass windows, the guitar suits aluminum sheet siding, coffee in Styrofoam cups, and PowerPoint slide decks.

“In our local churches we, as the congregation, should be thinking deeply about the music we play in worship to God because it really does matter.”

“It’s not that we think too highly of music at the expense of our sanctification, it’s that we don’t think highly enough of it …”