Posts by Mark Lautenschlager (Page 9)

Hey Church! The brilliant theologian and pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was only 39 years old when he was executed by hanging. It was the morning of April 9th, 1945, when this public enemy of the Nazi regime was finally silenced once and for all. Or so it would seem to any who were there to witness such a gruesome, dark morning. Dietrich could not know it then but the world…

Hey Church! “Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things!” (Psalm 98:1) Every now and then I think it’s good to shake up the usual routine in our worship music by programming a song that is a little outside our usual box. For one thing, new music helps keep our services from growing stale and predictable to the point that our souls…

Hey Church! Last week I went on a big Shane & Shane kick around the same time I was planning this coming Sunday’s service, so 3/4 of our music this weekend is either their song or their arrangement! I always love their music but I’ve been a bit obsessive as of late. I would encourage you to watch all of the videos linked below over the weekend. In the…

Hey Church! You may be familiar with the names Keith and Kristyn Getty, the modern-day hymn writers who wrote the massive hit “In Christ Alone,” which has now been sung by tens of millions of people in churches across the world for the better part of the last decade. The position they occupy in the worship-songwriting space is unique from their more…

Hey Church! We will sing “The Lion and the Lamb” together in church this Sunday and, since it’s been a while, I thought a brief review of its meaning would be helpful.  All the way back in Genesis 3, God made a covenant with Adam to restore the fallen creation by means of a Deliverer who would come through the “seed” of a woman, meaning He would be born…