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Dancing for Joy: A Biblical Approach to Praise and Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

Get up out of your seats and praise the Lord through dance! Worship occurs in many ways. Some people worship God through good works. Others worship the Lord through prayer. Many worship the Almighty through singing songs of praise. But more and more people are worshipping God through dance. In Dancing for Joy, Murray Silberling, one of the world’s foremost experts on worship dance, uncovers...

that the essence and nature of festival and dance were so intertwined that when a Jewish person spoke of a festival their first thought would be of dancing in joyful celebration. In his book Worship And Dance, J.H. Eaton says, “In many Old Testament passages alluding to cultic rejoicing but without explicit mention of dancing we can safely assume that dancing is implied.”1 Even today, in the Hebrew language, the common greeting for any of the joyous holidays is khag sameakh (חג שמח) which might be
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