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Heart of Worship. Heart in Love
Hey, I'm Josiah! I'm in love with Jesus and want to worship him for all eternity - Forevermore.
Ephesians 5:18-21
"Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ."
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Church Visit: Oak Chapel
I never got the chance to write about the small country church I have been serving at for the past semester. Last Spring, I was asked by...
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Dec 9, 20243 min read
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Church Visit: First Reformed Church
Early in the semester, my university’s chorale went to Michigan. While we were there, we sang at a Reformed Church, and this was my first...
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Dec 6, 20242 min read
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Formative Art in Spaces
As we have been learning in Theology of Worship class, worship and art in worship is formative. Not just the songs we sing but also the...
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Nov 26, 20243 min read
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Art Forming our Worldview
In the next chapter of Glimpses of the New Creation , Taylor starts to dig in more specifically to the arts in worship. He explains how...
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Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Starting “Glimpses of the New Creation”
We are beginning our final book for the Theology of Worship course, Glimpses of the New Creation , by W. David O. Taylor. In the first...
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
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Worship that Nourishes
We started this week by reading a chapter from Robert E. Webber’s The Divine Embrace . The title of this chapter was Life Together ,...
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Nov 12, 20243 min read
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Nairobi Statement Reflection
This week we read the Nairobi Statement of worship and culture. This statement is a result of the international gathering of the Lutheran...
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Nov 9, 20241 min read
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Reflection on Body of Praise
Last night, I finished the book A Body of Praise , and reflecting on my reading of it, I did not expect this book to be so rich and full...
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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A Body of Praise, Chapter 9
“Truly, I saw to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40. This is how Jesus says we...
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Nov 1, 20242 min read
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Our Senses in Worship
I really loved what Taylor had to offer in these next two chapters of A Body of Praise . He focused on the senses in worship, the ones...
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Oct 29, 20243 min read
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Misconceptions from Scripture to Culture about our Bodies
In chapters 5 and 6 from A Body of Praise , Taylor begins to explore commonly taught practices, thoughts, and beliefs about worship. He...
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Oct 25, 20243 min read
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Our Bodies are Actually Good
In our continuation of reading A Body of Praise, Taylor expands his discussion of the body’s connection to worship. While he has already...
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Oct 18, 20243 min read
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Do Our Bodies Matter in Worship?
We’re in our next book for Theology of Worship, A Body of Praise by David O. Taylor. In the first two chapters he gives the premise of...
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Oct 18, 20242 min read
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Eucharist and Eschatology
Continuing in reading A More Profound Alleluia , we reach a concept that I’m not sure I have spent much cognitive, intentional,...
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Oct 3, 20242 min read
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Revelation and Christology
I was really blessed by this chapter we just read from A More Profound Alleluia by Leanne Van Dyk. This chapter was all about the...
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Sep 26, 20243 min read
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What does sin do to our worship?
In this collection of writings from A More Profound Alleluia, we read from many theologians and worship experts. In our last reading,...
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Sep 24, 20243 min read
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Order of Service inspired by A More Profound Alleluia
We read the introduction and first chapter from John D. Witvliet’s book A More Profound Alleluia. In which, he discusses the structure...
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Sep 19, 20242 min read
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The Trinity in Worship
This chapter focused on the Trinitarian nature of God and how we encounter the Trinity in worship, how worship forms our theology of the...
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Sep 17, 20244 min read
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Dyrness Chapter 3
Dyrness continues to explore the historical influence of how worship has affected our theology, and what he calls style and spirituality,...
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Sep 11, 20242 min read
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A Primer on Christian Worship: Worship and Art
In the second chapter of his book, Dyrness challenges us to look back at worship’s history in order to see its impact, power, structure,...
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Sep 5, 20243 min read
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