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Worship leaders should be readers!  Below is a modest bibliography of readings in the area of worship and the church which I recommend.  Books with an asterisk (*) next to them indicate great starting places.

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Best, Harold.  Music Through the Eyes of Faith. San Francisco: Harper, 2003.

Best, Harold.  Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts.  Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2003.

*Carson, D. A., ed.  Worship by the Book.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.  (esp. chapters 1 and 4)

Clowney, Edmund P. The Church. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1995.  (esp. chapter 9)

Chapell, Bryan.  Christ-Centered Worship. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

Dawn, Marva J.  Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Dawn, Marva J.  A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Frame, John M.  Worship in Spirit and Truth: A Refreshing Study of the Principles and Practice of Biblical Worship.  Philipsburg: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1996.

Myers, Kenneth A. All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture. Wheaton: Crossway, 1989.

Nouwen, Henri. With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life. New York: Maryknoll, 1994.

Old, Hughes Oliphant.  The Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship.  Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zurich, 1975.

*Old, Hughes Oliphant.  Worship: Reformed According to Scripture, rev. ed.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.

*Ortlund, Anne.  Up With Worship: How To Quit Playing Church, rev. ed. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2001.

*The Westminster Confession of Faith. 
Chapter 21: “Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day”
Chapter 27: “The Sacraments”
Chapter 28: “Baptism”
Chapter 29: “The Lord’s Supper”