Worship leaders Keith and Kristyn Getty recently updated a famous missions hymn—“Facing a Task Unfinished”—in order to inspire evangelism. Meanwhile, the Hymn Society released 55 old melodies with new ...

From “Amazing Grace” to “It Is Well,” historic hymns connect worshippers across generations through lyrics of faith, grief, hope and church history.

After the angel Gabriel visits Mary to announce she would conceive a child by the Holy Spirit, Mary receives the news and goes to see her cousin, Elizabeth, who is also miraculously pregnant. The ...

When I was growing up in Baptistland, we used to have this guy come and lead the music for our youth summer camp. His name was Chris Tomlin. This was well before he had hit it big, of course. That ...

The antique wood doors of the old sanctuary were closed, but I heard the sound of the drums, the twang of guitars, and the voices of those attending our Day One worship service. Worship? How can they ...

When Chris Tomlin first saw a photograph of a fragile scrap of papyrus unearthed in Egypt, a fragment containing what is believed to be the earliest known Christian hymn, the Grammy Award-winning ...

Much ink has been spilled over the worrying statistical reality that millennials are leaving their parents’ churches, and a lot of them don’t make a return appearance. Mega-church strategists ...

Today’s churches have a wealth of tradition in their hymnals—if only they’d open them. I have to confess that my heart sinks when we sing a song in church that’s less than 30 years old. Hymns are one ...

How many kinds of music are there? Most teenagers could come up with four or five. An aficionado might list dozens. But ask a church worship committee and you may hear that there are only two types, ...