WORSHIP AND CHURCH LIFE
Parenting in the Pew: Guiding Your Children
into the Joy of Worship by Robbie Castleman. Foreword by Ruth Bell Graham.
The author has a passion for worship, and has learned how to teach children to praise God.
She impresses upon parents the importance of taking their children's worship seriously,
and proceeds to show how parents can help their children, toddlers to teenagers, to
participate wholeheartedly in life's most important act. Trade paper, InterVarsity
Press. 125 pages + discussion questions for group study. CAT. # IVP-16275. $8.99-D
The Promise of Heaven: Discovering Our Eternal Home
by Douglas Connelly. InterVarsity Press, 2000, Hardcover with jacket. A small, attractive
book suitable to give as a gift. This thought-provoking book helps us focus on what
the Bible has revealed about Heaven and being face to face with the Lord. One of the
aspects the author focuses on is the importance of worship in Heaven and how we can be
preparing for that in our worship now. What Mr. Connelly shares will encourage and
challenge us as we seek to live faithful lives in preparation for the day we meet
Jesus and give our account of our lives to Him. As Mr. Connelly presents each
characteristic of Heaven that he finds presented in the Bible he follows it with a section
called "Living Now in the Light of Not Yet." that helps us apply the new
insights to our lives now so that we will be more prepared for Heaven when we get there. I
highly recommend this books to those who long to hear Jesus say: "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant."
120 pages + notes. Cat. #IV-22313. $10.79-D
The Worship Maze: Finding a Style to Fit Your Church by
Paul Basden. Trade paper, InterVarsity press, 1999. One problem facing many churches is
how to meet the worship service expectations of members from different generations who may
have different tastes in worship music and styles. Some like it dignified and traditional
with organ and/or piano music to accompany the hymns from the hymnal. Others like it
contemporary, with lots of praise songs and maybe even electric guitars and drums. How can
a church meet the needs of all its members?
This book seek to explore the answers to questions that are being raised
in the worship committees of churches everywhere. Mr. Basden, a pastor and professor,
believes worship should be a celebration -- not a source of conflict. In this book he
leads church folk through what he terms the worship maze and reviews five prominent
approaches to worship: liturgical, traditional, revivalist, praise, and seeker-sensitive.
He lays out the essentials of any genuine worship, points out the strengths and weaknesses
of each of the five styles, and shows how your church can arrive at the most fitting style
for its own services. 149 pages followed by notes and suggested readings. Cat. # IV-22046.
$9.89-D
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