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You Ask Me Why
It is because I know Life’s thread is slender,
But one short hour, one little stretch of road.
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Awake, My Heart, With Gladness
Awake, My Heart, With Gladness Awake, my heart, with gladness, See what today is done; Now, after gloom and sadness, Comes forth the glorious Sun. My Saviour there was laid Where our bed must be made When to the realms … Continue reading
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O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown; O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee … Continue reading
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My Song is Love Unknown
My song is love unknown, My Saviour’s love to me; Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, That for my sake My Lord should take Frail flesh and die? -Samuel Crossman (1664) Entire … Continue reading
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Shall We Clap?
When we worship together, if someone sings, preaches, gives, reads, or whatever, they do so unto the Lord. We would do best to avoid communicating that we in any way think we have the right to give approval for what they have done. If what they have done is done rightly, it isn’t done for us at all. Assenting to the truths they proclaim, yes, that is certainly our role. But we are NOT the audience. God is, and approval of their service belongs to Him alone.
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Tagged applause, audience, clapping, music, performance, Scripture, worship
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Gluten-Free Music — When Standards Clash
This post isn’t really about music, it is about love. If love is our guide, it will kill the so-called “worship wars” that many churches suffer. We can’t feed “spiritual gluten” to those who will be made ill by it, and if pastors and worship leaders push music on those who believe that music to be sin, they are themselves sinning, no matter who is right and who is wrong about the music in question.
“If we let love be our guide, all will be safe.”
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Tagged authority, coeliac, conviction, Kevin Bauder, leadership, love, Mark Snoeberger, music, preference, worship
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One Reason for Standards in Music
We don’t have to try and get people to like our message. They aren’t going to “like” the truth, anyway. Their eyes have been blinded. Their only hope is for the light of the knowledge of the glory of God to shine in their hearts. “Cool” doesn’t come into it. Continue reading
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