Articles for Worship & Creative

When Five Iron Frenzy sang about the “Blue Comb,” was that a Christian song? Was it in the category of false worship songs? Or was it just a group of Christians singing a silly song?

To evaluate worship -- from the inside -- is preventive and proactive in order to deter a more unfavorable action or attack from transpiring.

Pastors need to be aware of the formidable tool that God has given us to teach his people—namely, the power of music and songs we sing.

Research indicates that everyone is born with creative potential. But to have creative ideas when you need them requires the ironic combination of humility and confidence.

An increasing number of young adults who have grown up in evangelical churches being drawn toward trends in worship experiences that are more intimate, less polished and often more liturgical than the worship of their home churches.

If God is really doing what he says he is, our gatherings can't just be entertainment worship. The answer to consistently having genuine, honest, real, authentic worship is in the worldview that we engender and the theological worldview that we espouse. God really is working all things for good.

Some megachurch rock star worship leaders surprisingly can’t even read music, let alone create a chord chart. So why are they hired? And why are there now more worship leader firings?

You might think that the staid Oxford don would counsel against praise and worship, but actually he had quite a bit to say about why we should praise.