A deep issue in Western Christianity is the teaching and practice of worship as singing for an hour on Sunday morning. Even if the church you attend or previously attended teach that worship is more than that, what does their practice betray? Would the evidence point to the belief that worship is mainly singing on [...]
Imagine what our lives would be like if we actually believed what we were singing on Sundays. Before you think “I do believe what we’re singing” and click away to watch that hilarious monkey on a segway on youtube, read the lyrics below and ask yourself, “Do I believe this about myself?”
Before the throne of [...]
Today’s song was introduced to Vintage21 Church in the season of Advent last year, but it’s value goes beyond singing once a year. The story of the Gospel can become rote over time, and we simply say what God did instead of really considering the cost and the effects. Read these lyrics, and ask that [...]
Have you found yourself in the middle of worshiping God in a song, and all of a sudden you feel or sense a great weight of His presence? It could be a characteristic of himself that God is teaching you, or a blaring sin that the light of Christ is making apparent. Sometimes there’s a [...]
Last week we experimented with preparing ahead of time for the Sunday service. To aid in this, there was a new post each day on worship.vintage21.com that introduced a song we were going to sing, with a link to the mp3 so people could read, learn, pray and worship prior to our gathering. Several people [...]