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This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 FINAL QUESTIONS & REMARKS A Fairer Approach Proposed When I first saw the title and subtitle, Why Johnny Can’t … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 FINAL QUESTIONS & REMARKS Where Does the Gospel Fit into This Discussion? I plead with Euodia and I plead … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 SIX PROBLEMS WITH GORDON’S ANALYSIS Problem #5: No Redemptive Hope Again and again, Gordon makes the claim that the … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 SIX PROBLEMS WITH GORDON’S ANALYSIS Problem #4: Misrepresentation of Contemporary Worship Here is an example of how Gordon, throughout … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 SIX PROBLEMS WITH GORDON’S ANALYSIS Problem #3: Historical Confusion and Unfounded Instrumental Favoritism Throughout the book, the argumentation Gordon … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 SIX PROBLEMS WITH GORDON’S ANALYSIS Problem #1: Lack of Musical Knowledge Gordon makes an early admission, which is prophetic … Read More

This lengthy review is broken up into several blog posts, but you can read the full PDF here at any time.  If you are jumping in mid-stream, scroll to the bottom to view and navigate to the other sections. T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal.  Phillipsburg: P&R, 2010.  $12.99.  189 pp.  ISBN 978-1-59638-195-7 INTRODUCTION & APPRECIATION If one had any inkling that the worship wars were over, look no further for evidence … Read More

Gateway Worship, God Be Praised (Integrity)Released: November 9, 2011 Gateway Church celebrated its tenth anniversary this year.  With an attendance of 16,000 people on a given Sunday, this Dallas-Ft. Worth-based church is becoming nationally and internationally influential, especially with its worship music.  God Be Praised is Gateway Worship’s third live album, alongside five other studio albums, the first having been produced in 2003.  Gateway Worship appears to have emerged largely out of the Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), a … Read More

Isaac Wardell and Bifrost Arts offer a great reflection here.  In true Bifrostian fashion, the video is simple and artistic, with a strong and unique message.  Wardell speaks of Bifrost’s own counter-cultural moves of in-home, in-art-gallery, in-church “hymn sings,” where the goal is to enjoy the beauty of singing together in worship of God.  The vision cast in this video corroborates the mounting evidence that the tide is turning with younger Christians who are exchanging hype for history, lights for … Read More

  I’m over half-way through Fred Sanders’ marvelous book, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything.  He recently posted about 10 practices of a successful writer.  I thought this was not only sound advice may have some cross-over application for songwriters.  If, indeed, these truths do cross over, I know I have a long way to go in living up to them.    Read widely, and read for craft. For theologians: Reading for craft means you’re going to … Read More