For What it's Worth: - Entries from September 2009

Keep singing...PostedSunday, September 27, 2009 @ 3 PMByShannon LewisTaggedMusic New Songs Saint Lewis Songwriting St. Simons Community Church Worship 1 commentsAdd commentWhile sitting down for a quick planning meeting with Fred a couple of weeks back, we began to discuss our (then upcoming - now past) Night of Worship, when he suggested we should do one of my originals, " Never Cease to Sing ", as special music.... More

Apologetics as Worship Study 3: Science vs. ReligionPostedSaturday, September 12, 2009 @ 8 AMByShannon LewisTaggedBooks Inside Out St. Simons Community Church Thoughts Worship Youth 1 commentsAdd commentLike most High School kids I had a very specific idea about how Christians had historically responded to Science: CONFLICT. The pictures I was given from my textbooks - even in a small town where churches were common and “religion” was still... More

Never Cease to Sing: Gifts & Fruit...PostedTuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 6 AMByShannon LewisTaggedNo tags0 commentsAdd commentOne of the songs I'm most excited about from our forthcoming c.d. is "Never Cease to Sing" ( which I posted an unfinished demo of a few weeks ago ), the lyrics of which are driven by two of my major personal spiritual convictions: Christian... More

Naturally Supernatural: It doesn't have to be weird to be GodPostedMonday, September 7, 2009 @ 6 AMByShannon LewisTaggedBible Theology Thoughts 5 commentsAdd commentI won’t lie: emotionalism is fun. The experience of experiencing - the feeling of being in that moment when you feel with such intensity that you’re absolutely positive that something unique is taking place. However, that “feeling” is so easily... More

Apologetics as Worship Study 2: Creation as an Evidence of GodPostedFriday, September 4, 2009 @ 10 PMByShannon LewisTaggedTheology Thoughts Worship 0 commentsAdd commentThe thought has come to me often that one reason to at least suspect the existence of a higher power - though this evidence does not specifically point to the God of Jesus - is the mere existence of the Universe. I think it's only rational to say... More

Your Jesus is too Safe, updatedPostedFriday, September 4, 2009 @ 5 AMByShannon LewisTaggedBooks Review 0 commentsAdd commentI apologize for the lack of new content over here this week, but an expanded, undated review of Jared C. Wilson's Your Jesus is too Safe has been published over at TheWorshipCommunity.com . Swing by, check it out, and enter into the conversation... More

For What it's Worth:

by Thoughts on Worship for a God who is Worthy