I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
Not everyone can lead worship.
There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.