Here’s a thought-provoking quote from Tim Challies’s book “The Next Story”: “It is usually only after a new technology is invented that we use our creativity and ingenuity to find ways of integrating it into our lives. This exacerbates its unintended consequences. If a technology was created specifically for business application and we adapt it …
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Why people sing in church
Thought I’d share a quote from a conversation between DA Carson and Tony Payne. Here, Carson suggests what he’d say during a church gathering/service to explain why there’s singing. “Historically Christians are a singing people because we have so much to sing about. In this church, we sing songs from centuries past, and songs that have …
HBC Easter Weekend recap: grace behind the scenes
(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose this past weekend at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.) —————————– Easter Weekend is always a busy time …
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HBC service recap: 17 April 2011
(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose this past weekend at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.)
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2. Let Your Kingdom Come – Bob Kauflin. Towards the end of the song we had the children from our pre-school group, Stepping Stones, paraded down the aisle with big leaves and branches (in remembrance of Palm Sunday). It seemed like in the absence of a proper introduction (I had planned to say something beforehand but forgot), most people got confused when the kids came in and simply stopped singing from that point on. Will have to rethink how to do this next year… For those there on Sunday, what did you think? Did the brass fanfare/kids streaming in/people singing trifecta work, or was it a confusing mess?
HBC service recaps: 27 March, 3 April, 10 April
(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose this past weekend at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.) —————————– Order of Service (27 March AM) (worship …
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