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Video: Christian persecution in Egypt, meet the Zebeleen (garbage people)

There is a series of 3 videos on You Tube that is a great documentary on the christian persecution happening inside of Egypt. This isn’t meant to be the most extreme example of persecution, although it is very bad, but it really puts into perspective what people sacrifice for a life after Christ. This is [...]

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Poll: recap of poll question “What responsibility do worship leaders have with their tatoos?”

Thanks for everyone’s votes on the tattoo poll. We got a lot of feedback on that one. 70% of you had a balanced approach and thought the worship leaders responsibility with his/her tattoo depended on the tattoo and the congregation. Almost 20% took the Crazy Town approach and said, flaunt those suckers. 15% of you [...]

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Alan Roxburgh interviews Sally Morgenthaler

I’ve previously posted here on Sally’s assertion that worship evangelism wasn’t working and generally agreed with her assessment. I thought she made some wonderful points and a lot of what she said is something we value very much in our church. I don’t know Sally personally but from what I’ve read and seen I believe [...]

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Bono talks about his revelation of Christmas

I’ve always admired Bono for his take on many things. I as many in the Christian community are always interested in where Bono finds himself in the journey. I find his honesty refreshing and there is no doubt that God has used him in many powerful ways. Here is a great quote from him on [...]

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New Poll: Worship leaders and tatoos

Just published a new poll asking What responsibility to worship leaders have with their tatoos? You can select multiple answers. I’m really interested in peoples thoughts on this. Please answer the poll and comment on this post with your thoughts and hopefully you have some scripture to back up your position. (Wondering if I should [...]

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Our interview with Chris Lizotte

Early in October we mentioned Chris Lizotte had agreed to do an interview with Our Rising Sound. Just heard back from Chris and below is the conversation we had. We tried to have a wide ranging sample of questions taken from our readers and contributors. I want to personally thank Chris for taking the time [...]

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Worship Evangelism and why it isn’t working

Sally Morgenthaler literally wrote the book on Worship Evangelism, she also co-wrote Emerging Worship along with David Crowder and others. So she is somewhat of a worship authority in the church. I have heard of her and read a few articles on her, but I’ve not read either of those books, for sake of full [...]

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New Trends in Music

Tim Hughes recently wrote a blog post about a American newspaper article bashing cutting edge(not Delirious) music. I’ll just paste the entire blog post here since it’s pretty short: ——————- Below is an extract from an American Newspaper objecting to new trends in church music. “There are several reasons for opposing it. One, it’s too [...]

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