My third book by Darryl Hart (and John Muether) is a welcome breath of fresh air regarding worship and at the same time an exercise in discernment. Hart and Muether are defending Reformed/Presbyterian worship and so include and defend many things in their church services which I would not (sacraments, liturgy, Sunday Sabbath, etc.). However, […]
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Drumming Up Deception
My second read by pastor DeBruyn was as good as the first (See my review of Church on the Rise in the January ‘08 edition). This smaller booklet is a quicker and more to the point study of the effect of drumming in rock music. Drumming, of course, has become the center piece on most […]
Letters of John Newton
We all know John Newton as the author of Amazing Grace, perhaps the best-known gospel hymn of all time. We also may know him as a converted slave trader who contributed to the English abolition movement in the late 1700s. Fewer may know him as a conservative (though Anglican) pastor of two parish churches during […]
Sankey: the singer & his song
While ordering some books online I came across this small book first published in 1946 and reprinted in 1996 by Ambassador Books, Belfast. Since we visit the place in Edinburgh where Moody and Sankey preached and sang, I am curious to know the details of their ministry together. The author relays the story of how […]
Singing and Making Music
I heard Paul Jones lecture this fall and was pleasantly surprised at his detailed and conservative approach to church music. Jones is music minister at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia where he ministered under Dr. James M. Boice for a number of years before his death. Jones is admittedly Presbyterian in his style of church […]
Preaching and Singing the Gospel
I just read an online article by a young man (by his own description) who went out of his way to criticize most gospel preaching and singing for the last two or three hundred years. He believes that once preaching and singing left the Puritan and/or Reformation tradition, it was down hill from there. Interestingly, […]
Emerging Worship
The sub-title is: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations. This book is a defense of emerging worship and also a guide book for those wishing to start such a service. Kimball does the typical and predictable things which all emerging church writers do. He speaks kindly toward “seeker” people and very unkindly toward conservatives. He […]
The Great Worship Awakening
This is a 2002 book by the pastor of a large Presbyterian church in San Antonio and former professor at Fuller Seminary. It is a defense of the blended worship module with a strong kinship to the convergence movement. The sub-title is: “Singing a new song in the postmodern church.” Redman always quotes Robert Webber […]
Exploring the Worship Spectrum: 6 views
This is one of the Zondervan “Counterpoints” books (2004). The editors take the latest forms of evangelical worship and have six different proponents defend each one and the others give a critique. The are: Formal-liturgical worship by Paul Zahl, an Episcopal rector; Traditional hymn-based worship by Harold Best, retired music professor from Wheaton College; Contemporary […]
Let Us Draw Near: Our Act Of Worship
And having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (Heb 10:21-22). It took Sir Robert Anderson, Scotland Yard chief detective, to shed the following light on […]