Colossians 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Find Us: Grace Community Church San Antonio New Songs Our Great God Sing Hallelujah to ...
This paper contends that the contemporary discussion among theologians regarding the relationship between theology and spirituality can offer new insight into the eighteenth century religious world. This theological discussion has wrestled with, among other things, the questions of whether theology and ...
as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to one another, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the
1. When you sing, you obey. Singing is NOT an option – It’s a command. (Colossians 3:16) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Ephesi...
:“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (ESV). Here, we see that our corporate singing is a means through which we teach and encourage one ano...
Finally in Ephesians, Paul encourages Christians to address "one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your hearts." Christians raised their voices in song from the start. Paul's Letter to the Philippians contains snippets of an anci...
We sing because, as those medical staff members in a New Orleans hos- pital knew, singing is one of many ways that God has given us to cry out in utter despair and in complete trust. Saint Augustine once said that the one who sings “prays twice.” 4 Sometimes our psalms, hymns, ...
or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture.” And so this is why we have a set liturgy each week with certain fixed elements in our worship. These elements include prayer, the reading of Scripture, sound preaching, the singing of psalms and hymns, and the administration of the...
Accordingly, Christians are called to "the quest for a fulfilled and authentic Christian existence, involving the bringing together of the fundamental ideas of Christianity and the whole experience of living on the basis of, and within, the scope of the Christian faith." Sound theology, then, ...