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Church as a Business?
What is the difference between a School of Business and a School of Divinity? These are completely different studies – but what about a course with the same title, like […]
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Spiritual Formation
Last night, I submitted a paper titled: “HOW DO THE PSALMS PROVIDE LIFE-LONG SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND GROWTH?” Some brief thought below. Dallas Willard describes spiritual formation as follows: …the Spirit-driven […]
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Worship – a Piece of Heaven
“Worship is like no place else in this world. But there is one place that it does resemble, and that is heaven” Just before AD 1000, Grand Duke Vladimir of […]
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What does it mean to be a Christian?
Culture is part of creation and is beautiful and fascinating at the same time. Although culture should not become the guideline or regulatory principle, people are joining the culture when […]
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Lament in Worship?
I had a discussion with some church members about singing. Their point was that the songs in the church should, in principle, be praise songs and that we should be […]
June 16, 2021 by
Organists
Organist Calling Committee
Regularly I received emails with organist/music director vacancies. Details about what is expected are included, and in one case, applications were to be emailed to the “search committee.” Makes me […]
February 24, 2020 by
Organists
Singing more Psalms
In the last few years, there is much talk about singing Psalms: rediscover and reintroduce Psalm singing. For example, in 2018, the Getty conference was dedicated to singing Psalms. Some […]