John Newton refused to have Handel’s Messiah performed in his church because he thought the music too worldly.
00857 – No Thanks, Handel!
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John Newton refused to have Handel’s Messiah performed in his church because he thought the music too worldly.
God is creative and likes to be worshiped in creative ways—and he calls us to grow in our worship. He did not stop being creative when Handel or Bach or Fanny Crosby died. He continues to shape how music expresses our worship differently in each generation. This is a...
He who speaks to us in Advent…knows the wilderness into which we have wandered, and the wildness of the world we have on our hands. It is precisely there we are to prepare the way of the Lord. Into the desert of this weary world we are thrust to transform and make it...