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“What can miserable Christians sing?” A couple of years ago, pastor and church historian Carl Trueman posed this question in an article. He was reflecting on contemporary worship music and its limited ability to lament. Cries of pain are largely absent from our gathered worship vocabulary, and so in the wake of a terror attack, …
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It was a joy over the weekend to serve at the first Edify Conference, hosted at our home church (Howick Baptist). We had a great time opening the Word and considering the importance of what we do when we sing together as the gathered church. Cheryl and I were in Sydney for Emu Music’s Word …
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These were my notes when opening this morning’s Easter Sunday service at HBC. Christ is risen; He is risen indeed! I’d like to ask you a question this morning: “What dangerous idea has the greatest potential to change the world for the better?” Four panellists were asked this question late last year in a Q&A …
Earlier today I was listening to a sermon on Psalm 150 this afternoon. About halfway through, Daniel Montgomery made a good point regarding what we’re to do in our gathered worship: And here’s the deal – what you notice in the “what” of praise [referring to who Psalm 150 is directed to], is that it’s …
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This is a helpful infographic from CCLI (the largest copyright administrators for over 300,000 Christian worship songs). Simply put, if you have a CCLI Licence for your church, you can legally do the following: Project song lyrics for use in congregational singing (using graphics, slides, etc.) Create your own customised songbooks or hymnals for use …
