BOOK REVIEW: Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (James K. A. Smith)
Published in Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith 2.1
Worship in Perspective: Trans-Cultural and Counter-Cultural
Institute for Christian Worship (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), 2004
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A Tale of Two Mountains (John 4) (Part 1)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 5 (June 2021) John 4 is one of the most important passages on worship in the New Testament. Because it’s here in John 4 where Jesus Himself teaches on worship. Zane Hodges wrote: [The Samaritan woman] raised the subject of worship, and the Saviour’s reply was as pregnant a statement on this issue as had ever escaped the lips of man. Indeed, once He had
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Tapescrew on Worship (4)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 8 (August 2020) Once again with apologies to C.S. Lewis and his Screwtape Letters, here is one more letter from Screwtape’s relative Tapescrew, writing to his own nephew Woodworm and speaking to issues facing worship in our churches today. __________________ My dear Woodworm, It is delightful to see what havoc we have caused around the world by perverting, of all things, the worship of the
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Tapescrew on Worship (3)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 7 (July 2020) Once again with apologies to C.S. Lewis and his Screwtape Letters, here is another letter from Screwtape’s relative Tapescrew, writing to his own nephew Woodworm and speaking to issues facing worship in our churches today. My dear Woodworm, When human creatures first come into the world, they are notorious for their single-minded focus on their basic needs, and their effectiveness in making
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Tapescrew on Worship (2)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 6 (June 2020) Again with apologies to C.S. Lewis and his Screwtape Letters, here is another letter from Screwtape’s relative Tapescrew, writing to his own nephew Woodworm and speaking to issues facing worship in our churches today. My dear Woodworm, On earth they are presently in what I like to call the “Do It Yourself” age. Everywhere you look, men and women are in a
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Tapescrew on Worship (with apologies to C.S. Lewis)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 5 (May 2020) C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters consist of an imagined correspondence between a senior, experienced demon Screwtape and his young nephew Wormwood. Screwtape gives advice on tempting and leading astray humans; and Lewis thereby makes some insightful and often biting observations about the human condition and how easily we are deceived by the forces of evil. Well, I’m happy to report some new letters
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The Challenges of Worship in the Church
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 15, No. 2 (February 2020) An enduring question underlying most of our debates, discussions and dissensions about worship is: How can we be biblically faithful in our worship,and yet culturally relevant in our own particular setting? Two issues in particular make this question difficult to answer: CHALLENGE ONE: The virtual silence of the New Testament The startling truth is that the pages of the New Testament contain
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BIBLICAL OR CULTURAL? Non-Negotiables and Negotiables in Worship
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 12, No. 2 (February 2017) I know of no church or denomination that does not desire to be biblical in its worship (no one is seeking to be unbiblical!). The question is what our “biblical” worship will look like. And this is where it gets tricky, because the New Testament gives us very little in terms of direct instruction or guidelines for what our worship services should
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