Elevation Worship is a contemporary Christian music group formed in 2007 at Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Known for modern worship songs that blend contemporary production with ...

Worship music didn’t just evolve; it grew through voices that connected hearts across sounds and cultures. Michael W. Smith led the way, blending piano melodies with powerful lyrics that shaped the ...

A study finds an increasingly rapid turnover time for church music. Churches across the US and Canada sang, “Refiner’s fire / my heart’s one desire / is to be holy” for a full decade after Vineyard ...

Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and Alex Warren have all dabbled in secular praise music. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photo: Erika Goldring/WireImage via Getty Images, Christopher Polk/Penske Media via ...

Twenty years ago, on September 11th, 2001, Michael W. Smith veered a bit from the contemporary Christian music he’d previously, to release an album full of praise and worship music. It was less the ...

(RNS) — A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you. (RNS) — On Easter Sunday, the ...

(RNS) — ‘How Great Is Our God’ has long been one of the most popular worship songs in Christian churches. Since 2020, it’s also become a theme song for Christian nationalist protesters. “Our hearts ...

Ten years ago, Australian native Darlene Zschech was facing a time of despair. The praise and worship leader was overtaken by the stress and worries of everyday life. She would have given up if not ...

With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church? When worship leader Jonathan ...

Anyone who has visited a shopping mall understands the Big Idea behind a food court. "If you want Mexican food, you go here. … If you want pizza, you go over there," said Kenny Lamm, the worship ...