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Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music is unavailable, but you can change that!

From an iPod to a car radio, from movie soundtracks to Muzak at the shopping mall, from singing in the shower to the concert arena, music is an unavoidable part of our lives. Not only is music ubiquitous, it is powerful: creating moods, evoking memories and images, uniting people, and providing an outlet of expression for even the most tone deaf among us. Besides its prominent position in...

In this light, it is not hard to see how refusing to sing could be one of the most powerful ways to signal God’s absence: “On the willows there we hung up our harps.… How could we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?” (Ps. 137:2, 4). On the other hand, singing served to articulate a response of the congregation to the Lord’s presence with them. The singers gave thanks, praised, adored, confessed, and interceded on behalf of the king and the people before the Lord. Singing, therefore, both “proclaimed
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