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The Worship Target: Growing Gracious and Holy Affections Through Congregational Worship, 2024
Newbold, Bradley D. The Worship Target: Growing Gracious and Holy Affections Through Congregational Worship. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2024. 170 pages. ISBN 9798385231591 By Melissa Davis, DMA Bradley Newbold’s book, The Worship Target: Growing Gracious and Holy Affections Through … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Newbold, emotional responses to worship, Jonathan Edwards false affections, Melissa Davis, refocus corporate worship, The Worship Target, what God wants worship leaders to do, worship leaders blind spots
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Possibility or Problem? – Art and Worship: First Steps to Increasing Forms of Worship in Gathered Worship Services
By Mark Jonah, DWS Introduction The use of music in the gathered worship services of evangelical Christians is self-evident. One can easily observe the predominant use of music in the worship services of most evangelical denominations. The two main actions … Continue reading
An Experience with a Church Merger
Mission Baptist Church, with roots in the late 1800s, had early successes in Mission, BC, having a large Sunday School and a strong presence. Starting in the 1950s, however, the church was chronically challenged with significant internal discord, resulting in multiple splits over several decades. Continue reading
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Ryan Ball, PhD
Research Interests Ecclesiastes, Wisdom Literature, Biblical Hebrew, Genesis, Jeremiah/the Prophets, Psalms, Old Testament, Difficult Issues of Interpretation and Application Publications Books Hebel, Joy and the Fear of God: Qoheleth’s Design and Message. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2025. Articles Ball, Ryan. “The … Continue reading
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The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story, 2024
Craig G Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. ISBN: 9781540966018. By Terry G. Hiebert, PhD The Drama of Scripture by Craig G. Bartholomew and … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical narrative theology, Drama of Scripture, new creation, redemption story, restoration of all things, Terry Hiebert, true story of the whole world
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New Book: Hebel, Joy, and the Fear of God: Qoheleth’s Design and Message, 2025
Is life vanity? Does time erase our meaning? Are the evils of society and one’s lot inescapable? Are we consigned to scavenge for scraps of enjoyment in our fleeting existence? In the end, does anything even matter? With refreshingly brutal … Continue reading
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How Can the Bible Guide Our Consumption?
By Brian Albright, PhD Financial decisions can be connected to several challenges that people face in life. Personal debt and working long hours can cause stress on families. The businesses that supply people’s needs are regularly accused of harming the climate … Continue reading
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Tagged affordability, Bible guide our consumption, Brian Albright, church and consumption, concumption decisions, consumerism, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, ethical business transactions, how goods are marketed, makers of goods treated well, need or want, purchase impact environment, purchase more important than God, purchasing decisions
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Evangelicals and Liturgy
By Lorn Gieck, DWS Introduction After ignoring liturgy for centuries many evangelical churches are experimenting with it. This article is an attempt to understand why and how, after all this time, a new renewal of worship is occurring in the … Continue reading
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Tagged definition of liturgy, evangelical liturgical tradition, evangelicals and liturgy, experimenting with liturgy, historic liturgy, how evangelical worship adopting historic liturgy, liturgical decisions, liturgical traditions, Lorn Gieck, order of congregational worship
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Review of Evangelism: Learning from the Past, 2023
Green, Michael. Evangelism: Learning from the Past. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023, 151 pages. ISBN 9780802883438 By Susan Booth, PhD Michael Green (1930-2019) was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Graced with an exceptional ability to balance scholarship … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian witness, crusade evangelism, effective evangelists, Evangelism Learning from the Past, evangelism that speaks to issues of the heart, evangelizing people, history of evangelism, Michael Green, revivalism, Spirit led evangelism, Susan Booth
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Review of Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams, 2023
Hicks, Zac. Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2023. ISBN 9780310145073 By Johnny Markin, DWS In the burgeoning world of literature devoted to informing and equipping worship leaders in the Christian Church, Zac Hicks … Continue reading
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Tagged Before We Gather, Christian calendar, heart for serving in worship, Holy Spirit role in worship, Johnny Markin, lament in worship, supernatural worship, worship leaders, worship teams, Zac Hicks
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Review of Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer, 2024
Benjamin L. Merkle and Adrianne Cheek Miles. Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. 176 Pages ISBN 9781540965998 By Joel Houston, PhD Benjamin L. Merkle (Dr. M.O. Owens Jr. … Continue reading
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Tagged academic productivity, academic writing, and emotional roadblocks to writing, Christian Academic Writing, Joel Houston, psychological, publishing in the Christian academic world, spiritual, writing for academic publishers who target a Christian audience
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God Works at the Heart of the Sanctuary and at the Threshold on the Periphery
When is a high school not “just” a high school? The answer is, when the followers of Jesus gather there to worship and hear God’s word and there is a powerful moving of the Holy Spirit. Continue reading
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Translating the Message: A Personal Reflection
Sanneh’s seminal work, Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture has had a lasting impact on missiological thought… Continue reading
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