We live in what one writer has called the "age of sensation." We think that if we don't feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops our feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship. When we obey the command to praise God in worship, our deep, essential need to be in relationship with God is nurtured.

Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, p. 54

James K. A. Smith on the value of the church's traditions:

There is a deep sense in which the church is a people called to resist the presentism embedded in the tyranny of the contemporary. We are called to be a people of memory, who are shaped by a tradition that is millenia older than the last Billboard chart. And we are also called to be a people of expectation, praying for and looking forward to a coming kingdom that will break in upon our present as a thief in the night. We are a stretched people, citizens of a kingdom that is both older and newer than anything offered by "the contemporary." 

 (from Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation) 

My soul, praise the Lord!
Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with majesty
  and splendor.
He wraps Himself in light as if it were
  a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,
laying the beams of His palace on the waters [above],
making the clouds His chariot,
walking on the wings of the wind,
and making the winds His messengers,
flames of fire His servants.

 Psalm 104:1-4, HCSB