Articles for Worship & Creative

It's unlikely that church attendance alone will impress your children with the greatness and glory of God. I want to convey one main point: God deserves to be worshiped daily through family worship.

These ideas for family faith formation come from a variety of different church traditions. Hopefully one will strike a chord, and you can begin working toward more times where families experience faith formation together with their faith community.

Worship leaders … it may be that the older songs can’t be done in the style that you prefer. It may be that the song means NOTHING to you, but we have to remember that it’s not about us at all.

Is secular music a sin? We don't want to be legalists, but we do want to throw off those things that stop or hinder us as we pursue maturity in Jesus.

The ultimate destination for worship tourists and travelers may be exactly the same. But the connection for the tourist is usually shallow and fleeting.

As worshippers, we want to know all we can about worship; not only how to worship but what worship is all about. That's why worship etymology is so important.

I find myself wanting to find something less volatile into which I can plunge my anchor. And for me, lately, that has been the historical creeds of Christianity--and studying the importance of creating a creed of faith for our church.

Lingering in musical worship, led by a worship leader who has been trained over years to be pastorally responsive to the Holy Spirit in worship, actually saves lives. There's real ministry in Spirit-responsive worship leading.