by Stuart | 26 Aug 2021 | Hymnody
Elizabeth Prentiss was a nineteenth-century American author, perhaps best known for the most famed of her novels, Stepping Heavenward. A pastor’s daughter and, later, a pastor’s wife, she struggled for most of her adult life with debilitating health. Reflecting on...
by Stuart | 26 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
In late 2004, my pastor preached a sermon series on corporate worship. I remember it well. In it, he defined worship as the church’s reverent and rational response to divine revelation. This definition is helpful because it enables us to see that worship is primarily...
by Stuart | 25 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
The Reformed Christian tradition is known for psalm singing. Many Reformed churches insist that we should exclusively sing psalms in corporate worship. While I do not share that persuasion, I do think that it would be a great thing to sing more psalms when the church...
by Stuart | 24 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
One of the pains of travelling internationally is ensuring that you have the correct documentation. Once you leave the borders of your own country and enter the borders of another, you want to ensure that all your paperwork is in order. The last thing you want is to...
by Stuart | 23 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
Matt Redman recounts the story of a time when apathy was widespread in his home church’s musical expression. Songs were sung, but the congregation was simply going through the motions. The pastor decided to get rid of the musicians and the sound system for a season...
