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40 Favorite Hymns for the Christian Year A Closer Look at Their Spiritual and Poetic Meaning

For generations, Christians have celebrated holidays and seasons with special songs. We all have favorite Christmas carols or Easter hymns, and some of us associate certain hymns with ev...

40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life A Closer Look at Their Spiritual and Poetic Meaning

We treasure hymns for their messages of comfort or conviction or for their associations with beloved believers and meaningful events. But many hymns are also powerful works of devotional ...

All Four Worship Books 4 Book Set

Contemporary Worship Music A Biblical Defense

John Frame answers objections to contemporary worship music by noting its biblical strengths and benefits in worship. Endorsements "Here, at last, is a case—and one made articulatel...

Covenantal Worship Reconsidering the Puritan Regulative Principle

Worship is central to the Christian life. But how should the church order its worship to honor God and enrich his people? R. J. Gore assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Puritan r...

Does God Care How We Worship?

Does God care how we worship? For thousands of years, believers have answered with a resounding yes! Ever since the days of Cain and Abel, God has emphasized right worship, and it’s...

Encountering God Together Leading Worship Services That Honor God, Minister to His People, and Build His Church

Does Sunday morning leave you with a sense of awe? It should! Church services are an opportunity to gather together and encounter God. More than that, God builds the church through us as ...

Give Praise to God A Vision for Reforming Worship

This call for the doxological reformation of the church is offered to “ministers who lead their congregations in worship, musicians who seek a deeper understanding of the spiritual ...

God's Lyrics Rediscovering Worship through Old Testament Songs

Are all the songs found in the Old Testament applicable to contemporary Christian worship? God's Lyrics answers with a resounding "yes!" Douglas O’Donnell draws out the historical, ...

Here We Stand! A Call from Confessing Evangelicals for a Modern Reformation

The church in sixteenth-century Europe needed a reformation. Martin Luther precipitated what we call the Reformation with his famous declaration, "Here I stand!" Is the evangelical church...