Two of my favorite Christian music groups are Casting Crowns ["Who Am I", "Voice of Truth", "Lifesong", "Set Me Free", "Stained Glass Masquerade"] and MercyMe ["I Can Only Imagine", "Word of God Speak", "Homesick"]. I am not alone, as these are among the most popular Christian music groups today. Casting Crowns has sold [...]
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Some of you may have followed some of the debate in the fundamentalist blogosphere over John Piper’s allowing Christian rapper Curtis Allen to sing a rap song in the Saturday night worship service at Bethlehem Baptist. There was much written on the issue and I am sure most of you couldn’t follow everything. Then the discussion [...]
Around here, we have been having quite the discussion on music lately! And that has been the case around the fundamentalist blogosphere for the most part, as well.
I just wanted to take this time to highlight a great post on the subject by Tom Pryde. It would be well worth your time to read his [...]
UPDATE: For those who have been following this, I want to provide a brief update. You others, read the original post first and then come up here for more!
I should point out the comments under Bixby’s post (linked to below) are worth reading. Also, Scott Aniol gives a post differentiating his beliefs from the philosophical position mentioned in [...]
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While reading a good critique of John Blanchard and Dan Luciarno’s book Can We Rock the Gospel? by Tim Challies, I came across a great article that one of the commenters referenced. The title of the article is “Some Thoughts On Musical Style As It Relates To Worship And Hymns (Revised)” and it is written [...]
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You may not know it, but today there is a modern hymn movement. I think I can call it a movement. Writers such as Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, and ministries such as Sovereign Grace Music, and Indelible Grace are each contributing to a modern drive to bring hymns back to a prominent [...]
In some recent posts on hyper fundamentalism (IFBx), I pointed out a devaluing of discernment and also explored some possible reasons that many people are attracted to this movement. One of those reasons, incidentally, was the removal of discernment. With hyper fundamentalism there is less need of personal discernment. Rather, one simply must conform to [...]
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We sang a wonderful song Sunday that I wanted to share with you all. It took me a while to find the lyrics, which I eventually found via Google’s Blog Search on someone else’s blog here. I would have obtained them from asking my church music department eventually, but I am glad they were available [...]
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One of the problems I see with fundamentalism in general and more specifically with IFBx fundamentalists is the dictating of the application of Scriptural principles. In what should be matters of personal conviction, fundamentalists often enforce “standards”. The standards or personal convictions are not problematic. We all need to have personal “rules of conduct” which [...]
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Recently, I came across an interesting blog by Brian McRrorie entitled Bowing Down. He is an assistant pastor of a fundamentalist church who nevertheless sees several glaring problems with the fundamentalist movement as a whole. What caught my attention was his position on unity and separation expounded on in the comment thread of an article [...]
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Thanks for the kind words, JJ. What I mean is that because we were ordained to eternal life, we ...
Nicely done, Bob! I think I agree with 95% of it... and I don't usually agree with 95% of ...
Thanks Matt. Good thoughts.
Great summary Bob! Short yet lacking nothing. Thanks. Regarding the freedom of the will no one choose that goes against their ...
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