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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Worship”

• advent - new 9 lessons animations and a bundle of other ideas and resources from proost

  
  jonnybaker — Authority: 125
  9 Lessons is a wonderful new flash animation from jon birch of asbojesus fame. it is incredibly simple an idea. run the flash file (in a browser or flash player) and there are 9 animating loops corresponding to each of the nine lessons and carols from the traditional christmas service. but heres the brilliant part ...
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• Welcome to Sunday Worship 11/15/09

  
  Straight, Not Narrow — Authority: 443
  If you dont have a welcoming church near you, or you just cant make yourself step into one, were bringing worship to you. Here are links to some worship music and services from open and affirming ministries (all times eastern). I hope you are blessed and take time out of your busy schedule to enter into the Lords day. ...
  3 hours ago

• Lord I Offer My Life Lyrics

  
  Simply Ecclesia — Authority: 121
  “All that I Am, All that I have”… as the song entitled “Lord I Offer My Life” has been being sung this morning in our church assembly, my tears were dropping down my checks. The calling to offer everything unto our God is so difficult. Lord I Offer My Life! The pain and the joy, the regrets and the acclaims, ...
  6 hours ago

• Lord I Offer My Life

  
  Simply Ecclesia — Authority: 121
  “All that I Am, All that I have”… as the song entitled “Lord I Offer My Life” has been being sung this morning in our church assembly, my tears were dropping down my checks. The calling to offer everything unto our God is so difficult. Lord I Offer My Life! The pain and the joy, the regrets and the acclaims, ...
  6 hours ago

• Worship and Praise Sunday: Remember Me

  
  Following the Footsteps (My Personal Blog) — Authority: 126
  Its time for one of my favorite weekly blog posts which is Worship and Praise Sunday!! If you want to join in or simply share in the other songs being shared head over to Brittanys Blog Sweet Nothings . This week I am sharing another song by one of my favorite Christian Artists, Mark Schultz! Its Remember Me ...
  6 hours ago

• Worship Him

  
  One Single Minute — Authority: 128
  "Honor the Lord for the glory of His name.Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness." Psalm 29:2, NLT
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• Open during the week

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , p. 59. The twentieth-century Protestant Church locked six days a week has no precedents in the Reformation.  All the Reformed churches of the sixteenth century conducted weekday services before and after working hours.  We have noted the ...
  9 hours ago

• Presbyterianism = the haunting fear someone somewhere might hear unmediated Scripture?

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , p. 102-103. “Lecturing” was a running exposition of Scripture and was especially popular through the system of Puritan [i.e. not Presbyterian] “lectureships,” of endowed preaching posts outside the regular benefices.  The ...
  9 hours ago

• Scottish Episcopalians were better Presbyterians in worship

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , p. 109. …in most cases the legatees of the Westminster Assembly Puritans did not care to maintain the full prescriptions of the Directory .  The anti-liturgical current moved most of them still farther to the left.  Perhaps the most ...
  9 hours ago

• What Is Worship?

  
  Marsha's Musings — Authority: 426
    What is worship?  Is it going to church? Is it the music? Is it praying? Is it the Pastor’s message? Is it a feeling? Is it a style? Is it an experience? Is it getting or giving? Is it a tranquilizer that numbs our pain? Is it surrender? What is ...
  9 hours ago

• Social Media plus Gaming: Twitter or Facebook + Xbox = ?

  
  Rich Kirkpatrick's Weblog — Authority: 419
  It is true. On November 17 Xbox 360 will now be able to interface with your Twitter, Facebook and other social media accounts. Imagine, in the middle of your Halo 3 match you feel like tweeting the world about the color of paint on the wall or update your Facebook status on how your achievements fall short as far as ...
  9 hours ago

• Saturday Night Mind Dump…

  
  My World — Authority: 139
  Great night tonight Definitely felt more on my groove tonight The band nailed the Weezer song “Beverly Hills” Love seeing all the new people who God has brought to Revolution Love when ask I someone how they found Revolution and they point to the person next to them Never gets old If you thought tonight ...
  10 hours ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Happy Doodler — Authority: 127
  desire Phil Wickham I’m running through the gates of love, as fast as I can I can’t wait to see You cuz I’m a desperate man You made the light and sent it down to show us who You are Now It’s bursting out my heart My desire is burning like a million stars And I’ll keep reaching out, ...
  11 hours ago

• Cranmer and the Shaping of Angilcanism

  
  caf de soire — Authority: 416
  In my spare time—well, actually when I should doing schoolwork—I have been reading some on the history of Anglicanism . Having known very little about the tradition, I wanted to get a better picture of its roots. It was only recently that I learned of the great influence some of the continental Reformers had on ...
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• Discerning Your Idols

  
  My World — Authority: 139
  Tonight I talked about the idols we have in our lives. Many of us take Jesus off the throne of our lives and place something else in His place. We make something else ultimate, hoping that person or thing will fulfill all our needs and dreams. This can be a spouse, money, kids, a job, a hobby, sports team. The thing ...
  12 hours ago

• How Idols Work with our Past, Present & Future

  
  My World — Authority: 139
  “When idolatry is mapped onto the future – when our idols are threatened – it leas to paralyzing fear and anxiety. When it is mapped onto the past – when we fail our idols – it leads to irremediable guilt. When idolatry is mapped onto the present life – when our idols are blocked or removed by ...
  13 hours ago

• Huguenot Psalmody and Illegal Whistling

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  Many of these melodies are very vigorous. This is often not recognized, because in many traditions the tunes are sung slowly, and often with simplified rhythm. However, in their original rhythms, at a brisk ‘folk-song’ tempo, some can be hair-raising, such as Psalms 2, 47, 99, or 148. It was not for nothing ...
  14 hours ago

• Huguenots v. Puritans

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , p. 109. Some measure of the revolution effected by the Puritan movements in Reformed worship can be seen in the contrast with the French experience.  When the storm troopers of the Counter-Reformation drove the Huguenots by the thousands ...
  15 hours ago

• Congregational Psalmody in the Huguenot Church

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , pp. 58, 59. The Huguenots quite caught Calvin’s concept of congregational psalmody.  It became their hallmark, in homes, in corporate worship, or on the battlefield.  The French Discipline required all to own and bring their liturgical ...
  15 hours ago

• Huguenot Psalter in Martyrdom and Resistance

  
  Mark Horne — Authority: 136
  From James Hastings Nichols, Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition , pp. 38-40 As the staple of private and family  as well as of the services of the church, the psalms became known to many by heart.  No other book of the Old Testament, at least, could rival the psalms in the affections and knowledge of ...
  15 hours ago

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