{"id":319,"date":"2010-07-12T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T03:14:33","slug":"thoughts-on-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/07\/12\/thoughts-on-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/guest-bloggers\/confessions-of-a-failed-worshiper\" target=\"_blank\">post <\/a>by Matthew Smith on his use of contemporary settings of hymns in worship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lyrics I was singing were not about my desires and how much I  wanted to worship God, they were about Jesus and His desires, and they  gave specific and beautiful reasons why He was worthy of\u00a0worship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Arise,  my soul, arise! Shake off your guilty fears\u2014the bleeding sacrifice in  my behalf\u00a0appears. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Before the throne my surety stands\u2026my  name is written on His\u00a0hands.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The hymns also  invited me to be honest. Rather than demanding that I leave the  hardships of life at the door to lose myself in a \u201cworship experience\u201d  (which had never panned out anyway, and upon reflection, seemed more of a  Buddhist ideal than a Christian one), they spoke frankly about how  weariness, sorrow, and pain are a part of the normal Christian life\u2014not a  sign of personal spiritual\u00a0failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read his whole post.\u00a0 Then look for his music.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monergismbooks.com\/product.php?productid=16773&amp;partner=jackerman\" target=\"_blank\">Indelible Grace<\/a> CDs he mentions are outstanding.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have them you should.\u00a0 They blend contemporary music styles with traditional, thought-provoking hymns by some of the greatest spiritual thinkers and hymn-writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great post by Matthew Smith on his use of contemporary settings of hymns in worship. &#8220;The lyrics I was singing were not about my desires and how much I wanted to worship God, they were about Jesus and His desires, and they gave specific and beautiful reasons why He was worthy of\u00a0worship.&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/07\/12\/thoughts-on-worship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,81],"tags":[114,15,208],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-worship","tag-indelible-grace","tag-matthew-smith","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-59","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}