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Pastor Javier Buelna: It is addiction to emotions that creates no change.
A few years ago, East End Fellowship, a multicultural Presbyterian congregation in Richmond, VA, started an urban songwriting internship and a gospel choir to reflect its congregational values of incarnation and reconciliation.
The music of the megachurch is both a bane and a blessing. The key task is discerning which of its dimensions fall in each category.
The Rev. Hugo Molano and his wife Nubia founded Salem International Ministries in their native Columbia in 1979. They continued expanding their work with the planting of new churches in Venezuela, Peru, and Mexico, until reaching the United States about 27 years ago.
Twenty artists from North America and South Africa created “Between the Shadow and the Light: Artists’ Prophetic Responses to South Africa Today.”
John Calvin wrote much about the value, purpose, and nature of Christian liturgy.
This article describes the role of the worship planner and provides suggestions for worship planning in a wide range of churches and worshiping communities.
This article translated into Korean calls for worship services that seek to enable the participation of adults and children alike.
We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.
an article on how to lead a worship service translated into Korean
A video conversation featuring Raymond Wise on the needs and opportunities in church music today
The Season of Lent brings to mind the historical practice of fasting, of “giving up” something in order to “take up” something else.
