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How Churches Can Bridge Generational and Stylistic Divides
A lot of churches operate without awareness of the divides within themselves over worship. Awareness and openness are the first steps. Be willing to ask people to try out the other service.
Articles on Corporate Worship
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Dear Pastor, You Are the Primary Worship Leader in Your Church
Pastors, you may not own an instrument or know how to play one. But your congregation looks to you to know what it means to be a worshiper. You are the primary worship leader in your church.
What Is the Aim of Our Singing in Church?
The aim of singing in Scripture is multifaceted. At the very top of that list, singing should be seen as an act of worship unto God. Psalm 96:1 says, “Sing to the Lord.”
What Does It Mean for Worship Music to Be “Good”?
We offer our music—like our finances—to God as we use it to build up his people. Goodness invites us to reframe every aspect of musical worship as an offering.
We Must Reframe Our Concept of Joy in Worship
The root word for joy is actually the word for grace. We often view joy as something that just sort of happens to us, and we have no control over it.
How to Cultivate True Encouragement and Kindness as a Worship Leader
While society means that we must accept ourselves and cut ourselves slack, Christian kindness requires self-reflection and reliance on God’s kindness to us.
Podcast: The Value of Singing in Church Whether You Like the Music or Not (Matt Boswell)
Matt Boswell discusses the benefits and theology of congregational singing and how to respond when you don’t like your church’s singing.
A Sample Worship Service Liturgy for the Christmas Season
Is your Advent worship service ready? We’ve carefully curated a complete, ready-to-use order of worship featuring hymns and readings from The Sing! Hymnal.
How Believers Can Engage More Wholeheartedly in Congregational Singing
When we gather as the people of God, it’s more than just a people getting together in a room. It is a high and holy privilege to gather in the name of Jesus.
How Singing Can Strengthen Our Self-Control
It is not uncommon to hear spontaneous singing equated to Spirit-filled singing, the idea being that sudden praise must spring from a movement of the Holy Spirit.
Podcast: What Worship in the Church Is Actually About (Ryanne Molinari)
Ryanne Molinari addresses how music shapes what we want, what we think about, and how we do things, and how this plays into the importance of the way worship is done in the church.
Each of Us Has a Singing Ministry
Engaging in the work of congregational singing is one way every believer builds up the body of Christ. Each of us who is in Christ can have an effective ministry edifying the church through song.
7 Suggestions for When You’re Struggling to Worship Joyfully
We will not always brim over with delight on Sunday mornings. So, what are we to do when we find ourselves worshiping without joy?
9 Ways Musical Worship Leads to Fruitfulness
When we sing together, it is not simply about what we are doing for God but what he is doing in and through us by the Holy Spirit.
We’re a Modern Church, So Why Do We Need a Hymnal?
We live in a world of projection screens, band arrangements, Planning Center, and chord charts. Why should we care about a new hymnal?
5 Hymns to Sing at the End of Life
What is it about the singing of hymns that aids us in releasing grip on this earthly life and entering the eternal embrace of Jesus? How do songs comfort us in such sorrowful seasons?
Are You Worshiping God in Vain?
Worship is bowing, lifting hands, praying, singing, reciting, preaching, performing rites of eating, cleansing, ordaining, and so on. But the startling fact is that all these things can be done in vain.
Podcast: Singing Is for Everyone and Every Day (Kristyn Getty)
Kristyn Getty talks about how singing together as a family gives children songs they will carry with them through their whole lives.
Why Do We Sing in Church? 5 Reasons
Why do we sing? Why do Christians, especially as we gather on Sundays for corporate worship, join our voices together and sing to God? Here are five reasons.
7 Tips for Teaching Kids to Praise God with Their Heart and Voice
We are created, commanded, and compelled (by the gospel) to sing. Our children need to see singing to the Lord as being in the “for everybody” category and not simply a matter of taste or great ability.
Podcast: Why We Created a New Hymnal (Keith and Kristyn Getty)
Keith and Kristyn Getty discuss the new Sing! Hymnal and how a hymnal can shape the history of the church, form the life of a congregation, and contribute to family worship.
For twenty centuries the church has been singing. We sing a music that flows into every part of our lives, for the delight and honor of the Lord and our deepest well-being.
What Makes Our Worship Beautiful?
The apex of our fellowship and communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is holy worship. Worship of God originates with God, not man.
Podcast: What We Can Learn from the Prayers of Church History (Zach Carter and Jonathan Arnold)
Zach Carter and Jonathan Arnold help us understand and engage with written prayers throughout church history.
Podcast: How Jesus Is Both the Singer and the Subject of the Psalms (Christopher Ash)
Christopher Ash discusses how we should understand the psalms in light of Christ and what role they should play in our lives today, both personally and corporately in the church.
Podcast: The Gettys’ Favorite Christmas Hymns (Keith and Kristyn Getty)
Listen to the Gettys talk about their favorite Christmas hymns, and then listen to their performance of each one right here on The Crossway Podcast.
How Can We Worship in Spirit and in Truth?
Everyone in the world worships something. From the most religious to the most secular, all people value something high enough to build their lives around it.
10 Key Bible Verses on Singing
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD.
A Guide for Your Personal Worship Entering Holy Week
A sample day’s readings from O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, a 48-day devotional liturgy to help readers effectively prepare their hearts from Pascha (Easter) to Pentecost.
Podcast: The Most Important Thing Our Churches Have Forgotten to Do (Paul Miller)
Paul Miller deepens our understanding of prayer by highlighting why we need to pray with one another if we really want to experience the full blessing of prayer.