Category: worship
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Weekly Worship Thought – Patriotic Music
This weekend is the Memorial Day holiday. Every once in a while someone will ask why we don’t sing patriotic…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Pentecost
This Sunday is Pentecost. We hear the fascinating story from Acts 2 where, “each one was bewildered to hear these…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Worship and Culture
One of the projects I’m currently working on is a fresh, practical application of the Nairobi Statement on Worship and…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Holy Week
As we prepare for Holy Week, I invite you to invest your time in worship. Specifically I invite you to…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
One of my favorite hymns is “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (ELW 807). It is one of my favorite…
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Weekly Worship Thought – The Words We Sing
The words we sing in worship are important. When the sermon is done we hopefully have heard God’s word preached…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Worship Technology
As we are installing new projectors and screens this week, my thoughts have been around technology. Technology doesn’t make worship happen.…
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Weekly Worship Thought – New Creation
When we are baptized, all of our life is baptized. Every portion of our mind, body, and soul is washed…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Baptism
Baptism is one of the rites that has been handed down to us through the centuries of Christian faith. In…
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Weekly Worship Thought – Sung Prayer
All of our worship is prayer. All the music we offer in worship can best be understood as sung prayer.…