Elevation Worship ’s “Praise,” featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown and Chandler Moore, reaches a 20th week at No. 1 on Billboard ’s streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Christian Songs ...

(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.

In vertical worship, the worship team gathers in a circle with other worshippers surrounding them, while a band plays and praise songs are sung.

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.

View full size Belinda Lilly dances to Christian Praise and Worship Music under the pavillion at Langan park Tuesday May 10, 2011. (Press-Register, Bill Starling) ...