For many churches today, music has become one of the most important factors in attempting to reach unbelievers with the gospel. Writing from his own personal experience as a former worship leader, Dan Lucarini questions the use of contemporary music in the worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Though the acceptance of popular culture (and in the case of music, pop music) within the Christian church is now an established fact, its very normality across the face of virtually every variety of Christian theological persuasion is ...
The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music Jay R. Howard, John M. Streck ... signed to the Elektra label and making no claim to being a “Christian band,” the fact that band leader Mike Knott had a substantial history with CCM, ...
Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating".
This groundbreaking work covers both major and minor Christian music artists and those associated with Christian music from the 60s to the present day, highlighting their influences, their struggles, and...
Although some may attempt to muddy the waters, this book washes away all the filth, so that we might see Jesus. This excellent volume should be read, reread, and applied. Brian R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Broadway Baptist Church
“In June, she will marry Gene Burkett,” who had “come to us recently to be with the Street Theatre.”44 In similar fashion, the March 1971 newsletter from the Antioch Ranch in Mendocino, California, noted that they had just “had the ...
Years later, Christian Century Magazine said she became -Conservative Christianity's worst nightmare: a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, God-fearing lesbian Christian.- This is her story.
... assessing cultural differences, perspectives, and expressions. Church Growth authors took McGavran's central emphasis (the homogeneous unit principle) and applied it both specifically with reference to becoming a Christian through ...
Essays: “Harmonia Americana: Our Legacy of Sacred Music” (C. Timberlake) surveys landmark music publications and historical studies; “Sacred Music in America: An Overview” (Adler); “The American Chorister” (Timberlake) identifies ...
Grand Rapids; Edinburgh: Eerdmans; T & T Clark, 1989. Gunton, Colin E. The Cambridge ... Edinburgh; London: T & T Clark; Continuum International Publishing, 2001. Gunton, Colin E. Theology ... Gunton, Sarah J., and John E. Colwell, eds.