I found this book to be an interesting look at the CCM problem from a man with an interesting background. Wheaton has a BA in Music from Denver University, an MA from UNC and a PhD in Music from UCLA. He now is the director of instrumental music for Calvary Church in Santa Ana, CA. […]
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Why I Left the Contemporary Chrisitan Mu...
This book is powerfully written from the perspective of a former contemporary praise and worship leader. It is Lucarini’s apology for the years he spent inside the CCM Movement acting as a “change agent” in several evangelical churches. He directs his criticism at those responsible for leading the CCM charge, not the average worshipper, and […]
Sacred Cows: Exploring Contemporary Idol...
This is a 1979 Zondervan book by the University of Aberdeen professor. His point is that almost anything in culture can become an idol, including family, country and ourselves. Walter is pointed in his critique of 20th century Christians uncritically accepting the mores around them. “The more important a social institution, the more likely it […]
Measuring the Music
I met John this month at Central Seminary in Minneapolis. He teaches in the area of Old Testament and Semitic Languages. That background prepares his thinking to enter this controversial area of the CCM musical debate. He answers the most recent defenses of CCM in a detailed way that is greatly appreciated. For example, John […]
Culture: The Incarnation Of Our Religion
There may be no more important word in today’s Christian vocabulary than “culture.” R.C. Sproul wrote, “Adjusting to the customs and worldview of one’s environment is one of the strongest pressures people experience. To be ‘out of it’ culturally is often considered the nadir of social achievement.”1 Everything has to be relevant to the culture […]
The Absent Second Person
If eternity and universality is to be found, not in dogma, but in worship—that means, in a common form of worship which will mean to the worshippers anything that they like to fancy, then the result seems to me to be likely to be the most corrupt form of ritualism. T.S. Eliot1 G.K. Chesterton […]
A Harp, A Bowl, and A Crown
Life’s day will soon be o’er, all storms forever past, We’ll cross the great divide to glory, safe at last; We’ll share the joy of heav’n—a harp, a home, a crown, The tempter will be banished, we’ll lay our burden down It will be worth it all, when we see Jesus Life’s trials will […]
Whatever Happened to Worship?
This volume was also printed by Christian Publications, but in 1985. I purchased both volumes by Tozer recently. Some of the material I have read in his other books, much of it is taken from his sermons and has not previously been in book form. Though Tozer’s CMA background is heavily felt throughout his books, […]
Tozer on Worship and Entertainment
This is a compilation of works and messages by Tozer printed by Christian Publications in 1997. The editors call this side of Tozer a “cherry bomb” when applied to today’s church, and I agree. Nevertheless, they say, Tozer needs to “have his say,” and I agree. “It is scarcely possible in most places,” says Tozer, […]
Messiah: the Story of George Frideric Ha...
It was a delight to be loaned this book for the Christmas holidays. I had never read the biography of this great composer who blessed us with The Messiah. This was a story as well of how that composition came into being, uniquely following only biblical wording. Worthwhile!