Praise Is The Power Of Praise

The Bible informs us that as they sung and praised God the Moabite armies became disoriented and began to fight one another. Perhaps this is why we schedule the choirs and praise teams to minister before the preached Word. Singing spiritual hymns to God will soften the hearts and prepare our minds for what God has to say to us. Once our hearts are “plowed” or softened we can receive with joy the assignments or correction God will give to us.

In the article “The Perils and Promises of Praise” the author, Carol S. Dweck, discusses the effects of using inherent praising on students. Dweck, a psychologist, conducted studies and research that led to the discovery that if someone praised a student for their intelligence, it would put the student in a fixed-mindset; if you praise the student’s effort, they would be in a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset is created in someone’s head when they are praised on their intelligence. People with fixed-mindsets believe that they are intelligent enough to where they should not put effort in anything else because if they're smart enough then they don’t need to try. People with growth-mindset believe in working hard and expanding their intelligence.

The title of the article is In Praise Of The F Word, which I think it’s referring to the word failure ,failure of our education system to teach the children basic skills and letting them graduate without having the capabilities of a graduate should have . The “F” word does not increase the effectiveness of the article because these type of informative article usually require the writer to tell the facts to the readers, although the word failure is stated many times in the article but not everyone has the same intellectual level to understand the phases. The writer of the article “In Praise Of The F Word” is Mary Sherry. Mary Sherry is the mother of three and grandmother of four resides in Burnsville, Minnesota. She has written numerous articles on general subjects and on spirituality in America, Newsweek, St. Anthony Messenger, Newsday, Catholic Digest, The Wall Street Journal and Liguorian. She teaches English grammar at night to adult students who dropped out of high school or who graduated without learning how to read and write well enough to keep a job. Her own son, when he was a senior in high school, nearly flunked English until his teacher threatened him with failure and he turned his semester around.

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new genres of music. For Christianity, hymns and plainchants were the first forms of music considered as a worship to God. As time passed by, Christian music has evolved giving way to new and fresh sounds.

To participate in worship, a person must have a relationship with God. In other words, how can a person worship someone he/she does not know or experienced. To obtain that link an individual must become a part of the body of Christ by accepting Jesus as their personal Savior and surrender their will for God's will and plans for their life. They must also have had an encounter with God as Saul on the Damascus road and David with his many issues. However, music has a multipurpose, it drives away evil spirits, calms the mind, and drives a person toward the love and warmth of Christ.

The word praise, from Old French and Latin, means to praise someone, to glorify and extol through song or compliments and dedication. Praising the Lord is an ocean of feelings at once. Praising the Lord is expecting a song and acquiring a torrential downpour of adoration and acceptance; everything pales in comparison.

1. Discuss the use of music in Catholic and Protestant worship practice, from the development of polyphony, through the music of J.S. Bach. In so doing, discuss the shift in responsibility for musical development from the Catholic Church to the Lutheran Church.

am involved in the Lord’s work with my church to include, but not limited to, singing in the ensemble

Music is the only medium that blesses both man and God at the same time and as such to see it as an entertainment factor within our worship services is a gross misunderstanding of its purpose. Music is made up of three elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. Mankind is also made up of three parts: spirit, soul and body (1 Thess 5:23). It can be argued that music and the triune, or trichotomy, of mankind are intrinsically linked i.e. melody is likened to the spirit, harmony to the soul and rhythm to the body.

Early on a misty Mother’s Day, I attended the Mount Zion Baptist Church’s 7:30 AM worship service to better understand how churches use Gospel music is used. Located in the middle of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, the church is a spacious, multi-story building with distinct African-style architecture, murals, and tapestries. After parking in the parking lot, I entered the building and climbed the stairs to the nave. There, a small, friendly woman greeted me, and I gave her my information, because it was my first time at the church. In the nave were rows of seats. To the right of the stage was the combined choir, accompanied by a pianist and drummer.

"lift up their hearts and voices to God above, who showeth his wonders in the

This premise is predicated on the hypothesis that music plays an independent and important role within scripture itself; that is to be an elevated carrier for liturgy and prayer, the use of which is mandated by God for corporate worship. Both corporate worship and individual faith would suffer if music were removed. As an act of worshipping obedience, and a way of more readily understanding and relating to God, we will examine

19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

Praise, Worship, Singing to God... Christian music is a way to talk to our God. It can be rap, pop, country Or just about any genre. Christian music can get you in your feels or get you pumped up. Like I believe that Christian music is the best music because it is clean, it is real, and because it brings us closer to God.

Worship comes in different forms depending on how the church wants the service to proceed. For the Amazing Grace Church, the service began with the congregation singing a number of worship songs to the Lord that lasted for about an hour. Christian praise and worship by music, and in fact, music is a great tool for helping them feel closer to God. Music is an emotional language because it effectively affects their emotions and the lyrics can swell their hearts. There is nothing bigger and greater than the grace of God that is delivered to them from condemnation through the sacrifice of his own Son. Thus, Christian chooses to praise and worship Him by singing. While singing, the congregation stands on their feet and they seem to be affected by the songs in some way as they raise their hands as a sign of accepting the Lord into their hearts. The emotion that was thrown from the congregation was very distinctive to us as we could see that the songs are an important tool of expression. According to the pastor of the Amazing Grace Church, singing let the people focus on the worship, helps them respond to God’s grace and also guide them to reflect on God’s glory. In his opinion, singing mean nothing if people do not respond to what they have sang and related it to God and reflect it to make them better believers.