"dailyPrayerreflection" 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 81 - 100 of 169 Sort by: Title | Date Coop's Column - Pentecost Pentecost Sunday is a day to celebrate, with full-throated thanksgiving and joy, Jesus' sending of his Holy Spirit. And, Pentecost Monday and the entire succession of days during Pentecost season, are a time of summons and challenge. Pentecost season is a time for the church to remind believers of their daily, lifelong call to bear witness to their Lord and to engage in his mission. Reflection | May 25, 2012 The Etiquette of Weddings and Worship If we carry this wedding analogy over into our worship planning, we can employ the same criteria in order to determine if our worship will bring God honour and pleasure. Reflection | April 17, 2012 Reflections on planning high school chapel Reflections on planning high school chapel by Ben Dykhouse of Ontario Christian School Reflection | April 17, 2012 Singing our Theology: Hymn Society conference For five days I had the opportunity to attend the Hymn Society Conference, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Hymn Society Conference is an annual conference that meets in a different location every year. It draws people who love hymns and the history of hymns. Reflection | April 17, 2012 Finding family thousands of miles from home: reflections on going where God calls I did not want to go to California. I wanted to stay home. That desire hit me hard over Christmas break as I watched people in the church I had grown up in come forward for communion. Reflection | April 17, 2012 Hands To Worship and Embrace the One We Crucified Consider the amazing dexterity of our hands. With them we care for our bodies: we wash, feed and groom ourselves. Think, too, of our remarkable ability with our hands to bring blessing or cursing upon others, to help them or to inflict deep hurt. The power of touch, whether for good or ill, is immense. Reflection | March 16, 2012 Eyes to Behold Our Savior's Grandeur Eyes are for seeing. Good eyes can see well; bad eyes, less well; blind eyes, not at all. Audio | Reflection | March 02, 2012 Diez convicciones esenciales en cuanto al acto de adoración cristiana En el décimo aniversario del Calvin Institute of Christian Worship [Instituto Calvin de la Adoración Cristiana] en 2007, identificamos diez principios y prácticas esenciales para presentar como nuestras convicciones centrales sobre la adoración Cristiana vital. Estas convicciones esenciales no son innovaciones. Son verdades intemporales de la Escritura y de la historia rica de la adoración Cristiana. Oramos que esta tentativa de reiterar y de reforzar la importancia de estas convicciones esenciales llevará a conversaciones más fructuosas sobre el significado y la práctica de la adoración Cristiana. Article | February 27, 2012 Coop's Column - Creation's Choir Sings Hymns of Praise It takes an act of slowing life down enough to cultivate wonder, which is one of the reasons God bids his children to practice Sabbath—to take a day off in order to savor life for the sheer and undeserved gift that it is, and then in turn to worship God and to give God thanks for it. This column includes an audio recording by Dale Cooper. Audio | Reflection | February 15, 2012 Praying the Psalms: Personal, Pastoral, Theological and Liturgical Reflections A plenary address presented by N.T. Wright at the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship. Audio | Video | January 27, 2012 Conversation with N.T. Wright A conversation with N.T. Wright exploring themes from his plenary address: Praying the Psalms: Personal, Pastoral, Theological and Liturgical Reflections. Audio | Conversation | January 27, 2012 Coop's Column- All Your Wondrous Works Proclaim With so much around us to invite our curiosity and to evoke our wonder, a bored attitude toward life is sinful. A day’s adventure in the world ought to end, after all, with an exclamation point of thanksgiving to God. Reflection | January 05, 2012 Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Guarantor The Spirit is the strange, personal presence of the living God himself, leading, guiding, warning, rebuking, grieving over our failings and celebrating our small steps toward the true inheritance. Reflection | December 12, 2011 We Have Seen His Glory: A Vison of Kingdom Worship A book contending that Christian worship cannot be a matter of merely continuing ancient practices; instead, we must be preparing for worship in the Kingdom of God when it comes on earth. Book Excerpt | December 08, 2011 Coop's Column- Spirit at Work: Sender This Good News - as every lesser piece of good news - is meant to be shared. And shared everywhere, always, by all who believe it. Reflection | November 30, 2011 Language of Adoption Mark Charles shares insights from his Navajo Culture. Article | November 11, 2011 What Is Truth? As a Christian I believe truth exists but I also find that there are many interpretations and varied opinions of what is truth. Article | November 08, 2011 Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Engifter The Triune God, through the Spirit's ongoing work, equips each member of his body for being suitable helpers to each other. Reflection | November 04, 2011 Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Assurer Doubting is cool nowadays—it’s “in.” Some Christians, a few pastors among them, seem to take no small delight in announcing that they’re no longer sure about the centralities of the faith. Reflection | October 19, 2011 Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: The Transformer's Instruments God’s Word teaches that the Spirit employs four principal means for shaping Christians: Scripture, the sacraments, a person’s life experiences, and time. Reflection | October 05, 2011 « Previous 3 4 5 6 7 ... Next »