“Worship” Articles

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

Remove enough friction and you don’t have a more efficient formation process. You have no formation process. You have content delivery.

Three hit songs offer three different perspectives on what it means to worship.

Godzilla-worship is idolatrous in reality, but this fiction helps us simulate “worship” of a great entity, despite its terror and ability to wound us.

Anne Kennedy joins Persuasion for an overview of Holy Week happenings and ways Christians can more meaningfully celebrate the resurrection.

Who has the words to grieve that David Foster Wallace could write what we believe and betray it constantly in his own life?

Have you ever felt like you’re hearing an old hymn for the very first time?

Hillsong has been a major player in transforming Christianity from a communal lifestyle to a spectator sport.

Tripp’s pursuit in ‘Awe’ is to understand the nature of our hearts and the wandering worship that we are often overcome with in every area of our lives.

In “Lord of the Starfields,” Bruce Cockburn lifts up a prayer that we might find the faith and hope to live redemptively in a world that brings so many down.

Matt Papas has always had a passion to teach the Bible and for theology and music; his work is a marriage of those two things.

God’s happiness for people is seriously complicated, what with the bone-deep sorrow and the crying and everything.

The Church’s songs convey its beliefs about God, but they also convey its beliefs about God’s world.

“I worry that adopting a more pragmatic, consumer-based approach to church and worship shifts our focus.”