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Seven Ways to Choose the Best Songs for Worship

How do you choose songs for a worship service? This article suggests seven ways.

Songs for Lent and Easter

The article introduces two songs for use in corporate worship during Lent and Easter.

Songs of Hospitality, Stewardship of Creation, Ascension, and Pentecost

This article introduces songs to be used in worship that focuses on hospitality, stewardship of creation, Ascension Day, and Pentecost.

Encouragement in Our Music

This article shows how biblical songs can be used by Christians to encourage one another in faith through music (Colossians 3:16).

Our Psalter: 100 Years of Praise (3) The Value of Singing the Psalms

This trilogy of articles argues that it is God's intention to see His church singing Psalms. Throughout history the church made this its practice out of an understanding that Psalms are songs given by God to His church. The author shows the spiritual value and edification embedded in Psalm singing, and answers objections to this practice.

Our Psalter: 100 Years of Praise (2) The Psalms Sung Through History

Our Psalter: 100 Years of Praise (1) Called to Sing Psalms

Music With Bread and Wine

What songs should accompany the celebration of the Lord's Supper? This article looks at the history of the celebration of the Lord's Supper before the Reformation and after the Reformation, with focus on the music accompanying the Lord's Supper. This article argues that songs of joy should resound during this time of the meal, and that liturgy must be structured accordingly.

"I / We"

The songbook of the church should be careful for cheap sentimentality and individualistic songs. It should focus on the great deeds of God.

"Intelligible and Edifying"

This article looks at two characteristics of songs in the worship service: they have to be understandable and edifying.

Our Songs in God's Worship

This article is about our singing in the worship service, and especially about what we should sing. The place of psalms and hymns as songs of our worship service is discussed.

Music: The Problem of Form and Content

This article is about the music (church music) that must clothe the text of the songs we sing in the worship and we have in our hymnal.

"Three Basic Principles for Good Church Music"

The songs of the church are to be scriptural, a sacrifice of praise and aesthetically pleasing.

Praise in Public Worship

This article is about the place of singing the Psalms and hymns in the New Testament, and the songs for worship.

This Is the Word of the Lord: The Bible and Worship

This article argues that the public reading of Scripture has become impoverished in churches. The author calls for renewed attention to Scripture as the spoken word for the gathered people of God, in preaching, in public reading, and in songs.

Horse & Rider

This article is about the characteristics of our praise and about remembrance and thanksgiving in our songs.

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