Articles for Worship & Creative

How to update the sound of a hymn without losing its heart.Hymns modernized can and should be a part of the modern church. But they should be so because they are good, theological rich songs, not because they are hymns.

Worship and doubt -- Jesus did not turn away the doubters, he received their worship and included them in his mission. Disobedience would have kept them from hearing his voice; doubt did not.

The Apostle Paul says that at the core of all our sin is idolatry. He didn’t just mean bowing down to statues (though that counts). Idolatry is much bigger than that.

Here is a test to see if you should keep reading this article: Write down your worship ministry vision in its tangible expressions, how you will get there and what help you will need in less than one or two paragraphs.

God is quite creative. All you have to do is look up and around you and you’ll see a world filled with wonder, with color, in mesmerizing detail.

Where do we start? At the very foundation of the dough. What is worship? Then, we move to the yeast – the how-to ideas – of building a worship ministry.

A lot of us say we want to live by faith, but the moment we can’t see or understand what God is doing, we throw up our hands to pray and say, “Are you even there, God?”

I’m talking about the children of the late '70s, the '80s, and early '90s who were raised less in the fluorescence of American pop culture than in the soft glow of the Christian subculture.