David W. Manner's Blog: Worship Evaluation, page 12
September 2, 2020
August 31, 2020
Bandwagon Effect
The following is an excerpt from my new book, Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship, Copyright ©2020 by Abingdon Press.
Better Sundays Begin on Monday is scheduled to be released in a couple of weeks on September 15. Print and E-Version copies are available now for Pre-Order at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Books A Million, Cokesbury, and Christian Book.
During the nineteenth century, an entertainer named Dan Rice traveled the country campaigning for ...
August 24, 2020
Decentralized Worship
Worship isn’t just our response to God’s revelation through the songs we sing on Sunday, it’s also our response through the rhythms and harmonies of life on Monday. So, if we learned anything through this season of scattered and regathered worship it was the necessity of focusing more on decentralizing our worship.
In business, decentralization is when the activities or actions of an organization are distributed and delegated away from a single administrative center to other locations. Decentra...
August 19, 2020
August 17, 2020
Worship Cause and Effect
The following is an excerpt from my new book, Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship, Copyright ©2020 by Abingdon Press.
Better Sundays Begin on Monday is scheduled to be released in less than a month on September 15. Print and E-Version copies are available now for Pre-Order at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Books A Million, Cokesbury, and Christian Book.
Worship doesn’t invite God’s presence; it acknowledges it. God has called us out of darkness int...
August 12, 2020
August 5, 2020
August 3, 2020
You Smell Like Grandpa!
When my daughter was much younger the aroma of my cologne often caused her to exclaim, “You smell like grandpa!” I was initially offended that she wasn’t able to differentiate between my high-end department store cologne and my dad’s low-end big box store aftershave. And then I realized the value of the fragrance didn’t really matter to her. Instead, her focus was on the meaningful recollections stirred by those olfactory memories of a grandpa who loved her unconditionally.
Fourteen years ago a...
July 22, 2020
July 21, 2020
Better Sundays Begin on Monday: Book Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from my new book, Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship, Copyright ©2020 by Abingdon Press.
Better Sundays Begin on Monday is scheduled to be released on September 15. Print and E-Version copies are available for Pre-Order at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Books A Million, Cokesbury, and Christian Book.
Breaking down game film is a discipline sports teams often incorporate after each game. They review and discuss game videos ...
