Joy to the World (Psalm 98)

“The Messiah’s Coming and Kingdom”
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Psalm 98:4-8

One of our best-loved Christmas carols isn’t really about Christmas.(Technically, it isn’t even a carol.)
It’s one of a set of paraphrases of the book of psalms, converted into hymn form
by the 17th-century “Father of English [...]

Practical Tips for Worship Leading

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Originally published August 2006. These ideas are in a rough and unpolished form. I wrote them down one evening while they were in my mind for some reason, and since then several people have told me this was very helpful in their own work in worship music. This is still very much how I [...]

Changing a Church Service: I’ve Got a Little List

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The always engaging SirNickDon recently posed an interesting question about church: “If your job was to remove five minutes from your Sunday-morning church service, what would you cut out?” (He voted to remove the “special” music, calculating precisely how many man-hours had been wasted watching someone do sign language to “I Can Only Imagine.” In [...]