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Bob Kauflin writes an excellent article on the value and potential struggles of singing hymns or songs with weighty words in church.

Are Hymns Too Weighty To Take In? | Worship Matters

Bob Kauflin posts some excellent reflections on leading music at T4G. The simplicity of the instrumentation, the depth of the words, the choice and placement of the songs after each message, the unity of the men singing around the themes of the gospel were all major highlights for me at the conference. Bob [...]

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

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

Rick Muchow, the worship leader of the well-known Saddleback Church in Southern California, pastored by best selling author, Rick Warren, has written a short devotional book entitled The Worship Answer Book. The intention of The Worship Answer Book (WAB) is to “stimulate personal discovery and to help [the reader] consistently move into the presence [...]

Challies Dot Com: WorshipGod06 - Reflections
Tim Challies, who live blogged the WorshipGod 06 Sovereign Grace conference last week, gives a helpful reflection on the conference from his cessationist convictions.  He is humble and still firm in his convictions.  I very much appreciated his making his thoughts public.

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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 [...]

While studying and meditating on Psalm 95 in preparation for preaching on this Psalm, I appreciated Spurgeon’s comment:
It is to be feared that very much even of religious singing is not unto the Lord, but unto the ear of the congregation: above all things we must in our service of song take care that all [...]