[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] One of the founding fathers of modern worship music, Brian Doerksen, says: “My deep concern is about some of what is going on in the modern […]
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Profound worship opportunities at Easter
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice]Down here on earth Good Friday and Easter Sunday come around once a year. Up there in glory the Death and Resurrection of Jesus are celebrated perpetually […]
Time for some Godly love songs!
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Why should world meet romantic needs of Christian youth? Valentine’s Day has prompted many a love-song. Some who never wrote songs before, suddenly find the inspiration […]
Sing a song in season
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] If you keep in touch with trends in Worship, especially congregational singing, you’ll be aware that Christmas carols and songs are disappearing from the December worship […]
Wisening up, not dumbing down, our worship
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and […]
Singing songs that admonish
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice]“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual […]
Singing songs that teach
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice]“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual […]
Singing with feeling
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Having insisted (in my July column) that we sing songs with Meaning, it is necessary to emphasise the need to also sing songs with Feeling. That’s […]
Singing with meaning
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Have you noticed how our world is losing its grip on ‘Meaning’? Many seem to have given up their search for Meaning in life, and are […]
Why Moses wrote that song!
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Moses – that courageous 80-year old prophet who zapped a million-plus slaves from under the nose of the mighty Pharaoh of Egypt, and led them for […]