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Worship Song: New Wine

January 30, 2019
by Kennon Bickhart

This article is hopefully the first in a series of articles surrounding the music that’s selected for us to sing during our church services. In these articles, I would like to take a song that we’re singing (or planning on singing) and think through some questions surrounding it. Why are we singing this particular song, is there a particular meaning behind the song, what scripture(s) connect directly to its lyrics, etc…?

Worship Song: All The People Said Amen

March 7, 2019
by Kennon Bickhart

Back again with another article in the running series on the music we sing together at our services. This one is centered on the song, “All The People Said Amen” by Matt Maher. This song came out on April 23, 2013, but the first time we sang it was February 22, 2015. There was almost 2 full years between its release and us singing the song corporately at a Sunday morning service.

Worship Song: My Beloved

April 4, 2019
by Kennon Bickhart

The song I wanted to focus on in this article is, “My Beloved” by Crowder. We first sang this in the summer of 2017. One of our music leaders, Adam Lusk, first introduced this song while I was on vacation. It wasn’t something that happened behind my back, but he brought the song to me and said he wanted to sing it while I was away. I’m glad that our leaders feel confident enough to introduce new music while I’m not there to organize it.

Why Don't We Write Our Own Songs

August 15, 2019
by Kennon Bickhart

Every six months (give or take) this question is brought up to me, “Why don’t we write our own songs?”. Sometimes it’s more of a statement of fact, rather than a question. “You know, you should write your own songs. How great would that be?” Most of the time I just smile and nod, and try to change the subject to something else. However as I was thinking about this question recently, I figured it might be good to have some document to refer back to about why we aren’t doing this.

Worship Song: Is He Worthy?

November 15, 2019
by Kennon Bickhart

A popular type of song called “call-and-response” is something that can be found throughout the history of music. What is the point of this type of song? It seems that these songs have a strong community-building, affirmation of the topics that they are centered around.

Worship Song: All Is Well

February 14, 2020
by Kennon Bickhart

Last week we sang a song called, “All Is Well”. This song deals with some ideas of the sovereignty of God, so I wanted to take a bit to help explain a few key points: What does it mean to say that “God is sovereign”? How is a sovereign God still a good God? What are the implications for me as a Christian?

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