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Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. In our search for those factors that encourage the ordinary people in the ordinary congregation to sing with easy enthusiasm, I have already listed the following: […]
Buchan back at ‘mighty rushing wind’ site Originally published in Charisma News This week, more than 6 000 Christians from almost 100 nations will be in Jerusalem to take part in the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration, which is sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and runs this year […]
When Gateway News received a lovely recording [Listen below] of nursing staff at Life St George’s Hospital, Port Elizabeth, singing the Lord’s Prayer in a urology ward, we decided to investigate. We found out that at the change of the morning and afternoon shifts the nursing staff in the different wards […]
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. With a passionate longing to hear congregations sing with enthusiasm, we identified two factors last month that identify “super singable songs”: Enthusiasm for the message of […]
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. Noting from last month that: Congregational singing in many churches lacks enthusiastic participation, and that Crowds outside the church-context usually sing enthusiastically, We ask … “Why […]
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. The menu for the Gettys’ Sing conference September 2017 got me salivating with desire. It would be exciting to attend and devour the good things offered […]
Originally published by Huff Post “We don’t have to please God in any other way than to be brutally honest.” U2 musician Bono has spent years reading and learning from the poetry of the Psalms, a book of the bible that contains ancient hymns. If there’s one thing Bono has […]
[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 me tell you about the inspiring Morning Service at a church I visited last Sunday. I will describe it, and then highlight some positives that […]
[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] God wants to hear psalms … and … hymns … and spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16). We know what psalms and hymns are, and […]
‘God’s response to doomsday prophets: healing through lifting up Jesus’ Seven years ago Paul-Jay Albrecht organised a praise and worship event in the northern districts of Pretoria. His heart was to have an event where people who needed God could come and meet Him in a place where they felt […]