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Tag Archives: Music
Calling Christian Artists to Reach a World Desperate for Beauty
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 Christian artists today have a terrible conflict understanding the purpose of their gift. If their work does not talk about Jesus directly, does it still have value? Can they work on … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Cultural Mandate, Ideas Shapers, Imago Dei, Music
Tagged beauty, Christian art, Christian artists, Music, spiritual gifts, worship
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Another Christmas Reflection
As my daughter and I went on a sunset stroll last week, I began singing some Christmas carols and landed on “Joy to the World” – a song that we spent a good deal of time reflecting on last January. … Continue reading
The Little Drummer Boy
The other day as I was driving to work, “The Little Drummer Boy” came on the radio. I’m sure we all hear this song at least once every year around Christmastime, but its full meaning is something that I hadn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Poverty
Tagged Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Gifts, Jesus, Music, Poverty, The Little Drummer Boy, Values
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Darrow Shares Why He Wrote LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day
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Tagged Arts, biblical worldview, Christianity, Church, Community, Education, Family, government, Mission, Music, Politics, transformation
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 9 & Final
Does our King rule arbitrarily? No. He governs through His eternal laws and ordinances. People and nations will prosper, living within the framework of God’s order. They will suffer impoverishment and enslavement by choosing to live outside of this order. We … Continue reading
Music that Writes Culture, Part 8
We are coming to the end of our look at the New Year’s Carol – Joy to the World. We have celebrated with Isaac Watts, the author of this wonderful carol, the joy and reason for the joy: Jesus is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Bible, Christianity, eschatology, Great Commission, Kingdom, Messiah, Music, Politics, Religion
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 7
I mentioned earlier that years ago I had a “revelation” when I was singing this hymn. This was the stanza that startled me. There is an imperative here, “No more let sins and sorrows grow!” How far? “As far as … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Economic Development, Language, Music, Science
Tagged accountability, Arts, behavior, Bible, biblical worldview, Christ, Christianity, Christmas, Community, consequences, consumerism, creation, Culture, Eden, Entertainment, evil, Faith, Fall, Francis Bacon, integrity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Morality, Music, Religion, responsibility, restoration, Science, Sin, Stewardship, transformation
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 6
How are we to respond to this good news? The answer is found in the second line of the stanza: ”Let men their songs employ!” What does this mean? To employ is “to use as an instrument of means” (Noah … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Bible, biblical worldview, Christianity, Church, conscience, creation, Culture, Isaac Watts, joy, Kingdom, lyrics, Messiah, Music, Nature, Plato, praise, Religion
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 5
Let me continue to unpack the words of this incredible New Year’s carol. The second stanza reads: Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns Let men their songs employ While fields and floods Rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Christianity, Culture, Great Commission, Isaac Watts, Music, Nature, reconciliation, redemption, Religion, salvation, Savior, sovereign
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 4
In the second line, Watts says “Let earth receive her king.” Note that the object of the first two lines has changed, from world to earth. I don’t think this was a slip of the pen or poetic variation in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Arts, astronomy, Atheism, brokenness, Christianity, composer, Heart, heaven, Hindu, humanity, hymn, Isaac Watts, Johannes Kepler, King, Materialism, Music, Nature, philosophy, Pregnancy, Psalms, Religion, salvation, Sin, Theology
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