Music

Baptists are known as singing people. I am a product of the Black Baptist church tradition.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Worship and the Church micro conference Jan. 30 welcomed more than 200 pastors, worship leaders, church musicians and ministry teams for a day focused on strengthening worship in the life of the local church grounded in Scripture, ending with a concert by Christian artists Shane & Shane attended by 1,400.

DALLAS, Texas – With his new EP “For Your Glory” releasing Feb. 13, Trip Lee is taking a departure from his previous hip-hop albums and going back to his early days reflecting on the heart of worship.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Four years ago, the Baptist Church Music Conference had about 80 attendees. It seemed like no one knew it existed. It felt like it was dying.

BRANDON, Fla. – In 2012, Jason Millsaps, lead worship pastor at Bell Shoals Church, could barely swim 37 yards without gasping for air. Twelve years later, he stood on the starting line at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, the most grueling and prestigious one-day endurance event in the world.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Apparently, it’s possible to be soulful, and yet without a soul.

NASHVILLE (BP) – “Gratitude” and “Graves Into Gardens” singer Brandon Lake won big at last week’s Gospel Music Association Dove Awards at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

NASHVILLE (RNS) — The lobby of the new Museum of Christian & Gospel Music in downtown Nashville was filled with the sounds of drills, vacuums and other power tools last week as workers scurried to put the finishing touches on displays ahead of the grand opening a couple days away.

I was 16 the first time I heard “Mr. Crowley.”

DALLAS (BP) – SBC Worship, a new collaboration between The Worship Initiative and a broad swath of the Southern Baptist family, has attracted thousands of churches in its first month of operation at sbcworship.com, Robbie Seay told Baptist Press.