Worship

Worship can be the adoration of a deity or the irrational love of a popular person. Worship can also be a ritual in a sacred place, like a church or temple service.

Phrases like celebrity worship and hero worship have become more popular in the United States as the news media, popular music, and movies raise the public identities of actors, singers, police officers and firefighters.

But worship also has a much different meaning. Christian artists continue to produce albums of contemporary worship music, while some musicians continue to record works of classical music that were based upon liturgical worship, including Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

Writers on sites like Liturgical Credo's blog use the Internet to address tradition and change in contemporary forms of worship.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “Worship”

• in Music
  Advice On Female-Friendly Keys For Worship Songs
  Why are so many worship songs in such high keys for female singers? Fret not, here are some straight forward tips to help
  by mariemusicademy / on Nov 17, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Worship”

• Advent

  
  Dave Lucas — Authority: 140
  "As he lay there, dying in the sun, the sand of desert all around him, Petaris spoke to the rock, not with his lips, but with his mind, and the rock wept tears of fresh water and his thirst was quenched . " Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started ...
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• Mark Simpson on Horace Boyer—Remembering A Gospel Singer And Scholar

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  Horace Clarence Boyer had a profound impact on gospel music over the past 50 years. He rose to fame in the late 1950s as one half of the Boyer Brothers. He later embarked on an equally important career in music education, becoming one of the first scholars to formally study African-American sacred music. Boyer died ...
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• Turkey: Religious freedom survey, November 2009

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on freedom of religion or belief.A long-standing crucially important issue, with many implications, is that ...
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• India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Karnataka, India, November 30 (CDN) — Police on Nov. 24 detained three Christians after Hindu extremists falsely accused them of forced conversion in Raghavendra Colony, Madugere, Tumkur district. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that 35 to 40 extremists barged into the rented apartment of ...
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• Praise Him With a Dance - 2

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 126
  In yesterdays post, Roy talked about the different instruments mentioned in Psalm 150. And he mused whether all mankind is the orchestra...the different instruments representing the many, varied aspects of mankind? The trumpet, the lyre, the harp, the organs, the crash of the cymbals... The NIV renders Psalm 150 ...
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• e3 Burundi Team Journal - Meet Pierre

  
  RockTheDesert — Authority: 100
  We first met Yvonne & Pierre (husband and wife) in January 2008. They were two of the translators for our first official e3 campaign in Burundi. Since then, Pierre has been a translator on every e3 Burundi campaign. Pierre is also a pastor in the Nazarene Church. His church is located in the Kanyosha ...
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  Briefing Room on SVConline — Authority: 442
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• Pursuing Biblical Marriage…Taking Christianity Into the World

  
  Accounting News and Notes — Authority: 133
  Pursuing Biblical Marriage…Taking Christianity Into the World Recently I was deeply saddened to learn about an impending divorce. It broke my heart and yet confirmed in my soul that God is good and that He is Good All the Time. Though all about you is toil and trouble, seek after His will for your life with all of ...
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• Black Fridays and purple Sundays

  
  GetReligion — Authority: 130
  Every year we read about the War on Christmas. The mainstream media love to cover stories about those Scrooges who ban the use of any specific greetings related to Christmas and the old curmudgeons who complain about the same. But I like to cover the war on all the other seasons of the liturgical calendar. For one ...
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• The start of Advent

  
  iGod — Authority: 118
  As many of you informed and smart people will know the period of Advent started on Sunday with, er, Advent Sunday. However, the Advent calendars wont start until 1 December. Why is that? Anyhow, I came across this poem/prose from Breathe and thought it was worth sharing here.  For those of us who were at church on ...
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• Some Advent Liturgy

  
  StewartCutler.com — Authority: 117
  Roddy over at Abbostford has been creating his usual brand of brilliant liturgy.  This one, May We… , was for the first Sunday in Advent but I think could fit with most Sundays this season.  Check the archive for the last few years too! You might also want to have a look at Lectionary Liturgies for some ...
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• Pursuing Unity

  
  TheWorshipCommunity.Com - Worship Leader Resources, Articles, Forums — Authority: 118
  Jonathan Riggs and Milton Gaither While I was in Pennsylvania earlier this year, I got to catch up with my old friend Milton.  I haven’t seen him in over ten years and I welcomed this opportunity.  Milton grew up with my wife in a prominent Southern Baptist Church in Nashville.  I met him as a high school ...
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• The Conservative’s Version of ACORN

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 482
  The Pink Flamingo has a commentary about conservatives meddling in elections where it is none of their durn business at Blogcritics.If conservatives arent careful, their newly found desire to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Advent Worship Art

  
  http://loveacceptforgive.wordpress.com — Authority: 124
  Over at WorshipCraft, they have started posting a series of Advent related backgrounds suitable for praise and worship or use on your desktop. The first one is here.
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• Five Christmas Gift Suggestions

  
  Thoughts of a North Carolina Baptist — Authority: 125
  Looking for a meaningful yet inexpensive Christmas gift that will bring blessing into the life of the one you give it to? Here are some suggestions: 1. Together for the Gospel Worship Album $10 This is a wonderful, wonderful worship album with a great selection of songs. Whenever its playing, its hard ...
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• Worship Video, Recap & Set List: November 29, 2009

  
  Rich Kirkpatrick's Weblog — Authority: 464
  Recap: This week was the beginning of a new era for Sunridge Community Church . Britt Sipe, our Interim Pastor brought it home with a message about change: Change Happens. The room was electric and once again I heard our people sing out, shout out and participate. God is about to do something very special during ...
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• “I had it all wrong” by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 132
  “When television-saturated worshipers attend their local churches or wonder how to draw secular seekers there, it’s not the songs of Zion they want but the songs of Babylon and Hollywood– or something like them. People attend worship with expectations shaped by television, and evangelical preachers try to meet ...
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• Set List – 29 Nov 2009

  
  Live to Worship — Authority: 118
  God With Us – Bart Millard You Alone Can Rescue – Matt Redman Jesus Paid It All – Alex Nifong, Elvina Mabel Hall, John Thomas Grape The thanksgiving vacation paid a toll on today’s attendance, but we still had new people visit which is always good to see.  I introduced Matt Redman’s new song You ...
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• Church band dilema

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 175
  I recently started playing in a church band, and while I havent been a habitual church-goer in the past, this has given me an opportunity to attend and participate. Ive been enjoying it fairly well. Problem is; the junior minister who is in charge of it has quite a penchant for dishonesty. Personally, I dont suffer ...
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• First Monday of Advent – What Are We Waiting For this Advent?

  
  Godspace — Authority: 526
  Advent has begun, and we have lit the first candle on our Advent wreath. As we move into this first week there are a number of thoughts I want to share as we ponder the question What Are We Waiting For This Advent Season? For those that have not yet started their Advent scripture readings you can check out various ...
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