Tag: Worship conversation with Hugh

Peace like a river — Hugh Wetmore

There’s a popular worship song that goes like this:             “I’ve got peace like a river, peace like a river,            I’ve got peace like a river in my soul.            I’ve got peace like a river, peace like a river,            I’ve got peace like a river in my soul.” It is […]

The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (3)

In the previous two Worship Columns, we have surveyed the changes in our worship services in the course of a lifetime.  Some changes are neutral, other are harmful. This month we celebrate the positive changes that have been taking place. Let’s identify some contemporary changes that are positively healthy, for […]

The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (2)

In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services.  For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being.  We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]