THE CAPRANICA

Pastor Mike McKinnley helps us out with a few links and ideas on finding solid hymns to sing at church.

Church Matters: The 9Marks Blog

Bob Kauflin, worship pastor at Covenant Life Church did an outstanding job of leading the music at T4G. Here are the list of songs and speakers from the conference.

Song List for Together for the Gospel Conference | Worship Matters

Excellent thoughts on singing together at church.

Addressing One Another in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs | Worship Matters

As a worship leader, I found this article helpful:

Planning Songs for the Long Haul | Worship Matters

How would you answer these questions about music and corporate worship?

Church Matters: The 9Marks Blog

Greg Gilbert is against music - facetiously at least.  Amen! to his comments on music and the modern church service.

Church Matters: The 9Marks Blog

God’s Sovereign grace is not cheap - but the CDs at Sovereign Grace ministries will be cheap in February.  Be sure to take advantage of this.  SGM possesses some excellent modern day congregational worship writers and producers.  I regularly benefit from this ministry.

Sovereign Grace CDs and Books for Ridiculous Prices — and Free Shipping | [...]

My good friend and congregational music leader, par excellence, Scott Hill, has posted a review of Sovereign Grace Ministries new Christmas album.  See his article, think check out the songs on the SG site.

FIDE-O: CD Review Savior “Celebrating the Mystery of God Become Man”

Watch and listen to Dr. Al Mohler on a Christian’s use and response to music and culture.

paleoevangelical: Mohler on Music

I do love hymns. Every morning in my quiet time I pull out my Baptist Hymnal and read through (sometimes singing) one or two hymns. “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” continually comes back to my heart as one of my all time favorite expressions of praise. The tune is majestic and [...]

That is the title of the hymn we began learning yesterday in church.  In light of the recent scandel, what a powerful reminder.  Written by Basil Manly.
Lord, I deserve thy deepest wrath,
Ungrateful, faithless I have been;
No terrors have my soul deterred,
Nor goodness wooed me from my sin.
No terrors have my soul deterred,
Nor goodness wooed me [...]

John Piper and the rap session at Bethlehem Baptist.

HT:  Between Two Worlds: Voice @ Bethlehem

Derek Webb is making his newest album available free of charge.  You have to provide five e-mail addys to get it, but, free is always good, even if you have to spam your friends.

HT:  Challies Dot Com SideBlog: A La Carte (10/24)

Other than the suggestions that we not really expect people to sing and that we need to lighten up our services (really, this is our contemporary problem?), this is a decent discussion on congregational singing. It’s good to at least talk about it, right?

Helping People Sing Their Hearts Out - BuildingChurchLeaders.com

A recording was made during the T4G conference (really a ‘no, no’). “I Will Glory in My Redeemer” is the song available. Our church recently learned this one and it has become a perosnal favorite.
HT: Adrian Warnock

Worship Matters
I used to listen to the lyrics of Bob Kauflin through the group GLAD.  This group put out some contemporary redentions of old hymns as well as produced great lyrics, some sung acapella, through more recent songs.  While his blog has been out for awhile, I’ve just started looking it over.  He has some [...]