Author: Ilysia Martin

You walk into church Sunday morning feeling groggy and tired. You are running late, so you walk into the sanctuary halfway through the worship set. You are thinking, “Where did the weekend go? Why is tomorrow Monday? Why am I even here when I have so much to do at home?”. You find a spot to stand and listen as the band leads the last song. You aren’t really interested in singing this morning so you just wait for the music to be over so you can sit down and rest. Doesn’t this sound like all of us at...

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people talk about the insignificance of worship in church. Unfortunately, many people view worship as something that simply happens before and after the message, as if singing praise is just a form of musical embellishment. What I want to talk about this month is the power worship has through the Holy Spirit. In the Understanding Worship EQUIP class that recently wrapped up, we listened to a message titled “Ambushing Satan with Song”. In this message John Piper talks about the immense power that singing has against the weapons of...

What is it about music that reaches into the depths of our souls and touches us like nothing else can?

The Holy Spirit places songs and Scriptures on the tablets of our hearts, sometimes only revealing the reasons why later on.

In the past few months we have looked into the meaning of worship. We have unwrapped truths and untruths about the praise of our Savior and what that should look like in our lives. This month I want to talk about a difficult subject when it comes to worship. I want to talk about personal preferences and how they get in the way of honest worship to our Lord. We all have our own set of likes and dislikes and things that minister to us as well as others that do not. When it comes to the creative arts,...