Tune Your Heart for Praise

I have a terrible singing voice. It was confirmed to me in the School Choir when my friend seated next to me suggested that I mime. Yes, my “friend” and I have not forgotten! I don’t quite hit the notes right, but I sure make a joyful noise! I don’t quite hit the notes right, but I sure make a joyful noise and I do enjoy it. I’m very thankful for the band that plays at church to cover the notes I don’t quite … nail. But singing in church isn’t about the operatic abilities of the congregation (I’m grateful...

Sarah Kuswadi

Worshipping with John Stott

Rhys Bezzant

Mary the Magnifier

Jane Tooher

Why it Hurts When We Can’t Sing

Philip Percival

Review: Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy – Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop

Tori Walker

Revolutionary Worship

Chris Thomas

Maybe the ‘Teacher’ of Ecclesiastes had in mind the modern fascination with preaching and worship when he said, ‘be warned: there is no end to the making of many books,’ because scroll through these topic pages wherever you buy your Christian books and you’ll be overwhelmed by the choices. So it was with cautious intrigue that I opened the parcel that held William Taylor’s new take on an old topic—Revolutionary Worship—I wondered just how many revolutions the church would have to endure on this topic. I mean, I’m only now beginning to heal from the Worship Wars of the ’90’s,...

Revolutionary Worship

Chris Thomas

Making God Bigger

Tony Payne

TGCA is pleased to share this public article of Tony Payne’s ‘The Payneful Truth’ Readers who would like to receive weekly posts from ‘The Payneful Truth’ can sign up here.* Is it possible for singing to make God bigger? The answer to that question begins back in the mists of time, when dudes with Sony Walkmen[1] roamed the earth and I was at theological college. As part of my Old Testament studies in 1994, I was set the task of assessing the ‘content and function of “praise” in the Book of Psalms.’ This was much more than an academic exercise...

Making God Bigger

Tony Payne

Singing and Not-Singing in COVID Season

Rob Smith

Of all the restrictions necessitated by the COVID pandemic, one of the most frustrating, at least for most Christians, is not being able to sing together—either because we’re unable to meet together or because it’s not deemed safe for us to do so even if we are able to be together. Of course, not being able to sing together hasn’t killed us, and it won’t. But it has deprived and diminished us and, understandably, is deeply painful to many. Not being able to sing together has deprived and diminished us So, like the writer of Psalms 42-43, we are right...

Singing and Not-Singing in COVID Season

Rob Smith

Yawning in the Face of Glory?

Heidi Tai

Has prayer and Bible reading become boring and uninspiring? Has the call to pursue Jesus become dry and exhausting? I picked up Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do at a time when I was feeling spiritually parched. I carried out tasks on autopilot, doing many things for God, but struggling to derive any joy from him. On the surface, I had the Christian routine down pat, only to feel cold and lifeless on the inside. Inevitably, many months of joyless service led to exhaustion and bitterness. What’s the point of it all? Awe Amnesia According to Paul Tripp,...