Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Religious - Christian

In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop--a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture--to "save" themselves and the city. Converting street corners to...

-Each Sunday people drive past one or more local churches, which are closer to their home, to get to 'their church.' Often the by-passed churches include some of their own denomination, peopled, in part, by their friends and acquaintances. Why is that? What 'voice' is calling them to one particular congregation?-

What is the voice of your congregation?

-The congregation sings an important song, yet its voice is more than an echo of the Master. The congregation's voice is the voice of testimony, praise, and prayer, rising from the lives and hearts of its...

You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it's a huge job. And it's an important job - one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges of building a team of creative people.

This book is about helping you sharpen your theology, define your role and vision, and build your team ... at the same time as dealing with the day to day reality of music ministry - wrangling with flakey guitarists, practising hostage negotiation...

La confusion entre le domaine ésotérique et initiatique et le domaine mystique, ou, si l’on préfère, entre les points de vue qui leur correspondent respectivement, est une de celles que l’on commet le plus fréquemment aujourd’hui, et cela, semble-t-il, d’une façon qui n’est pas toujours entièrement désintéressée ; il y a là, du reste, une attitude assez nouvelle, ou qui du moins, dans certains milieux, s’est beaucoup généralisée en ces dernières...

J. C. Ryle observed that private prayer is both the most important and the most neglected of the Christian disciplines, so he delivers this passionate and reasoned call to private prayer. As ever Ryle is clear, direct, practical, soul-searching but warm and encouraging-never sentimental.