HT: Randy Booth
Not a Good Stunt to Pull
We have noted earlier that Psalm 22:3 says that God lives in the praises of His people. He dwells there. This means that our songs, our psalms, our hymns are the living stones of a glorious Temple. This means that our music is a cloud of glory, the same kind of cloud that God used …
What Sort of House Shall It Be?
In Ps. 22: 3, we are told that God is holy, and that He inhabits the praises of Israel. What does that mean? We are the people of God, and when we sing, when we praise God, we are constructing a dwelling place for Him? So what kind of place should we build? How should …
Training for Maturity
As we continue to learn the nature of body life, we have to understand the distinctions that are made between those with special gifts and all the rest of us who need to learn a basic competence in those gifts. Not every Christian should be a scholar, but every Christian should know how to read. …
Just a Mingle Mangle
We know what the Incarnation is—the eternal Word became flesh and dwelt among us. But what does it mean for us to be or become incarnational? What is it of ours that can take on flesh the way the Lord did, even if it is a dim imitation? There are two things to note at …
The Lord As the Sound Tech
The songs of the saints are not a rehearsal in an empty theater. And although the Scripture says that we do address one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, we have to remember that the music of God’s people is not private music. We address God, and we address one another, but others …
No Non-Euclidian Scales
Music can be divided into three general categories—music you should repent of, music you can grow from, and music you can grow into. Music can be repented of for two reasons. The more obvious would be the intellectual musical attempts to declare the world to be a different kind of place than God created it …
Exhilaration and Maturity
As we continue our journey into musical maturity, we have to remember something about all such journeys. The beginning of any worthwhile endeavor is always exciting. Whether it is the first day of school compared to a gray, school day three months later, or falling in love compared to faithfulness in a troubled patch of …
Sound of the Chisel
We are a gathered assembly here, gathered in order to worship the Lord. But we have gathered out of a community, a group of people who live together, serving the Lord in various capacities, throughout the rest of the week. What we do there is what we bring here. We see this in everything. The …
Making the Cut
As Christians, we hold to the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, creation from nothing. God spoke and it was. But we are not Deists; we do not believe that God created a static thing, capable of ongoing existence by itself. God did not create the heavens and the earth, and then walk away. In His …