In a recent post I mentioned the fact that there are efforts being made by various groups to take portions of traditional Christian hymnody and contextualize the musical arrangements in a way that is appealing to particular cultural settings (i.e. without the pipe organ). One such group is Re:Sound, the music branch of the Resurgence. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Recovering the Hymns
Recently, I took a team of teenagers on a mission trip to Baltimore, MD. During this week, I got to spend time with the teens from my church and get to know them. Two of them really enjoyed talking about music so I shared some of my own musical interests. I shared one song in […]
Reflections on One Year of Parenting
Today, my wife and I hosted a party for our son Ethan’s first birthday. There were friends, family, a cake, and one of the messiest one-year-olds I have ever seen. I know it is cliché, but it has also proven to be true that “children grow up so fast!” It feels like just last week […]
Reading the Bible Contextually
Recently, I started a series on the question, “how do you read the Bible?” You can read the first post here. In this post, I want to cover the topic of reading the Bible contextually. What is Context? In simplified terms, context is just the words around the words. It is the setting in which […]
Challies on Personal Bible Study
Tim Challies has an excellent article that succinctly considers the question of why Christians should read the Bible. He makes the excellent point that there is no explicit verse that commands Christians to read the Bible on a daily basis. So why do we do it? Here’s an excerpt: When I think about the area […]