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Lessons from the Song of Moses (Part 3): “Inclination to idolatry”

In Deuteronomy 31- 32 we read about the final days of Moses’ life and how God would have him pass his leadership but also how he would deliver a parting revelation to the people of Israel. It’s all too popular for Christian songwriters to explain every song with the phrase “God gave me this song“, [...]

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Lessons from the Song of Moses (Part 2): “Confrontative Worship”

In Deuteronomy 31- 32 we read about the final days of Moses’ life and how God would have him pass his leadership but also how he would deliver a parting revelation to the people of Israel. It’s all too popular for Christian songwriters to explain every song with the phrase “God gave me this song“, [...]

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Lessons from the Song of Moses (Part 1): “Revelation & Response”

In Deuteronomy 31- 32 we read about the final days of Moses’ life and how God would have him pass his leadership but also how he would deliver a parting revelation to the people of Israel. It’s all too popular for Christian songwriters to explain every song with the phrase “God gave me this song“, [...]

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Kill your dreams and let Jesus remake them

Came across a tweet that touched on an issue I’ve prayed on, preached on, contemplated and wrestled with much of my life. The issue deals with dreams, desires and hopes in light of the gospel. The tweet said… That little voice in yr head telling U 2 giv up UR dream…It’s a lie from hell.When [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 5

In Part 1 I discussed how dangerous it is for our worship to be uninspired and in Part 2 I talked about how often our worship music can be cheap and its impact on the gospel. In Part 3 I discussed the prevalence of the fear of man in our often safe worship music. In [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 4

In Part 1 I discussed how dangerous it is for our worship to be uninspired and in Part 2 I talked about how often our worship music can be cheap and its impact on the gospel. In Part 3 I discussed the prevalence of the fear of man in our often safe worship music. For [...]

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Jesus Culture, we have a problem…your lyric

Earlier I posted a video of a new song from Jesus Culture called “Burning Ones.” I really dug the vibe of the song and thought the melody was really cool. This past week I started evaluating it to see if we’d do it in service and step 1 of evaluation was writing down the lyrics. [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 3

In Part 1 I discussed how dangerous it is for our worship to be uninspired and in Part 2 I talked about how often our worship music can be cheap and its impact on the gospel. For part 3 I’m going to discuss how safe our worship music can be. 3. Safe The ugly art [...]

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