Worship #10 – Worshipping in the New Millennium
Lookahead:Just this morning, I caught part of what I presumed was the worship segment of a church service on IG; it featured a young woman, jumping up and down, shaking her mound of long hair, to a rock guitar interlude (while everyone, including musicians, looked on) — then singing the following lyrics: Oh LORD won’t…
Worship #9 – Worshipping in Arabic When You Don’t Speak It
Lookahead: And, in fact, the byline read, “Carine Bassili shares how God used her viral worship song to break barriers and release healing between Arabs and Jews.”1 She believed that the LORD had instructed her to write a song about the God of Israel. The result was a beautiful Hebrew/Arabic song that came from Psalm…
Worship #8 – Positioned for Worship in the Old Testament
Lookahead: But the song wasn’t totally the focus of the controversy. It was the rendition of the song that seemed to be the issue. One podcaster put a comic spin on some of the remarks which I’ll use because it takes the judgmental sting off. “The church is trying to be too much like the world…he’s there…
Cross-Denominational Bible Study 