Hymns – Southern Reformed Smoker

If Only God Had Provided

And as my music minister clambers into his hamster wheel of repetitive verse so I mount the saddle of my hobby horse to once again bemoan the state of worship music in the church. An interesting study has come out examining the most popular “worship” songs and to no one’s surprise of the 38 songsContinue reading “If Only God Had Provided”

A Comment!

I get so few comments on posts that when one crops up it’s something of a big deal. It’s an even bigger deal when the comment is good and advances the thinking. Such is the case after Friday’s post, where I took to my old hobby horse of modern worship music and music ministers inContinue reading “A Comment!”

Is Mark Driscoll Leading Your Praise Team?*

One of the charges leveled in The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill was that in preaching the now famous/infamous “Who the Hell do You Think You Are!?” sermon out of 2 Peter everything was planned before hand and replicated at each service. A more honest commentator would have readily conceded that this kind ofContinue reading “Is Mark Driscoll Leading Your Praise Team?*”

Lloyd-Jones and Four Chords

Introduction I think, by now, it is pretty apparent that I find modern evangelical worship highly suspect at best. I may be closer to the mark to say I utterly despise it. There are exceptions that sneak into the repertoire of of the four cord playing mono syllabic “worship leader”. But those are usually ofContinue reading “Lloyd-Jones and Four Chords”