Beside Still Waters Ministries

Definitions of Christian Worship
Because Dr. White quotes several other scholars in this section, I am simply going to list the quotes that I found important or interesting. Also, listing these scholars and books will later be helpful for me to know what I should add to my library.
Prof. Paul W. Hoon The Integrity [...]

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This hymn was written as a poem in 1886 by a young Swedish pastor, Carl Boberg, who was caught in a sudden thunderstorm while visiting a beautiful country estate.  After the storm passed, the air was filled with the sweet songs of birds and the green countryside glistened in sunlight, and he was inspired to [...]

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These days praise and worship are lumped together like we know that they kinda go together and yet most people don’t really know what the differences are. Two weeks ago I talked about worship, and now we’ll think about praise. I know I’m getting a little bit of traffic, but no comments so [...]

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In my prayer time, I felt that God wanted us to look at His grace, and those that responded to it with hymn texts that continue to be powerful today. First, let’s look at John Newton, who wrote “Amazing Grace”, probably the most well-known hymn around the world. John’s mother was an early, strong spiritual [...]

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I also wrote some Sunday School lessons for my church’s worship team several years ago, so I’ll be sharing those here as well as the newsletter articles.
This word – worship – came from an Anglo-Saxon word, “woerthscripe” which means “to ascribe worth, to pay homage, to reverence or venerate.” The Hebrew word which is most [...]

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