"sacramentsbaptismAndLordsSupper" All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Book Signing Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Online Discussion Podcast Prayer Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Christian Year Daily Prayer/Reflection Dance Drama Grants Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Worship Language Arts/Words Music Preaching Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Teaching Technology Visual Arts Worshipers Worship- Leading Worship- Meaning of Worship- Planning Worship- Preparing for Occasion All Funerals Symposium Resources War Lessons and Carols Ascension Hymn Festival Advent Weddings Weekday Services Epiphany Natural Disasters Pentecost Teaching Worship Commissionings Thanksgiving Easter Christ the King Christmas Healing Services Anniversaries Taize Ordination/Installation Heidelberg Catechism Summer Passion Week Lent Dedications Search results 21 - 40 of 53 Sort by: Title | Date Reformed-Roman Catholic dialogue: Baptism and the Lord's Supper Reformed-Roman Catholic dialogue: Baptism and the Lord's Supper Article | October 25, 2011 How Communion Trains Us in God’s Hospitality The more that you experience God’s grace through the sacraments and in ordinary life, the more attention you’ll pay to who’s not at the Lord’s Table. Feature Story | February 07, 2011 Hospitality as Paying Attention Randy Smit sees all of life as a gift and the Lord’s Table as the “quintessential place for experiencing the hospitality of Christ. And so who’s at the table becomes pretty significant.” He suggests focusing less on “fencing the table,” more on opening it to children or others who may be left out. Feature Story | February 07, 2011 Table Fellowship For the last fifteen years LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church has welcomed children to the Lord’s table by means of a Table Fellowship liturgy. Article | December 08, 2010 Many Tongues A celebration of World Communion Sunday need not be odd or uncomfortable for people with a limited experience of languages and cultures other than their own . Article | December 01, 2010 Taste and See What would it be like if all our senses were regularly engaged during our weekly worship? Article | December 01, 2009 A Season of "Social Capital" An article on human relationships within society which distinguishes between three different kinds of social capital: bonding, bridging, and linking. Article | December 01, 2009 Remembering Baptism: Living Wet More congregations are seeing baptism as a sacrament that begins a lifelong pilgrimage. This shift leads them to pay more attention to baptismal living in worship and daily life. A feature story exploring the practices of the sacrament of baptism. Feature Story | September 30, 2009 Baptism: A story we all share Discover how the multiple meanings of baptism can enrich baptism as a source of Christian identity, faith formation, and baptismal living. A feature story exploring Baptism, a story we all share. Feature Story | August 24, 2009 Confirmation and Profession of Faith Practices Are Changing Two concerns, young adults who drop out of church and adult churchgoers who stop growing in discipleship, are pushing denominations to rethink their approach to the sacraments. Feature Story | September 02, 2008 From Confirmation or Profession of Faith to Multiple Milestones of Faith What is confirmation or profession of faith for? Does it certify knowledge, open the communion table, affirm acceptance of baptism, mark a milestone in a continuing faith journey? A feature story exploring the meaning behind profession of faith. Feature Story | September 02, 2008 Liturgical Footwashing This service was designed to be a full service of Word and sacrament. It was also designed to allow worshipers to share in the intimacy Jesus experienced with his disciples through foot washing and during the meal in the hours prior to his arrest and crucifixion. Article | December 01, 2007 How Church Architecture Affects Lord's Supper Practices Does your church visually convey a message that contradicts your theology of communion or mass? Mark A. Torgerson explains how church architecture and sanctuary design can inhibit or enhance a more full and communal Eucharist celebration. A feature story on how Church architecture affects Lord's Supper practices. Feature Story | August 17, 2007 Lord's Supper Practice in the Reformed and Presbyterian Tradition Though John Calvin favored weekly communion, many churches in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition are just starting to renew Lord's Supper practices. A feature story exploring Lord's Supper practices in the Reformed and Presbyterian Traditions. Feature Story | July 24, 2007 Space, Time, and Sacraments - N.T. Wright A seminar led by N.T. Wright on the sacraments of the Lord's Supper and Baptism, discussing the larger questions of space, time and matter within which our understanding of sacraments must be located. Audio | January 10, 2007 N. T. Wright on the Gospel and Meal Jesus Gave Us What can people inside and outside your church learn about the gospel from the way you preach and practice the Lord's Supper? A feature story exploring the Gospel and Christian Celebration of the Lord's Supper. Feature Story | December 08, 2006 Mark Torgerson on making more of baptism Mark Torgerson shares how to make more of baptism. Feature Story | May 12, 2006 Baptism and Church Architecture: What message are you sending? No matter what age your church baptizes people, ask yourself this: How consciously are you living your baptism as a way of life, not just an event? A feature story exploring what messages churches send with their Baptism practices and church architecture. Feature Story | May 12, 2006 Theological Reasons for Baptistry Shapes In her wonderful book, A Place for Baptism, Regina Kuehn reminds readers that the baptismal font’s shape reveals baptismal truth, and the font points to baptism’s key element, water. She invites churches to think more about baptism’s sacramental weight and "the radical nature of our baptismal promises," than about whether the font is pretty. Feature Story | May 12, 2006 Ways to remember baptism in regular church worship and life Two articles from Reformed Worship have especially good ideas for helping worshipers to affirm their identity as a baptized people. Arlo Duba suggests ways to incorporate baptism in regular worship and special services. Carrie Steenwyk explains how to include baptism as part of the Easter Vigil, following a tradition dating back to the early church. Feature Story | May 12, 2006 « Previous 1 2 3 Next »