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Audio | January 28, 2011 Weaving Mission Partnerships into Church Life This article presents nine tips for weaving mission partnership into church life. Feature Story | January 10, 2011 How Mission Partnerships Can Deepen Worship Maybe your church always has many people plan and lead worship. But that World Communion Sunday service was special for Faith Presbyterian Church in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. It showed how their long partnership with a Presbyterian parish in Kenya is opening people to rethink stewardship, lead in worship, and share faith stories. Feature Story | January 10, 2011 Background of the Worshiping The Triune God statement An overview and introduction of 'Worshiping the Triune God,' a statement of faith and wisdom on worship and spirituality produced by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Article | January 07, 2011 Teach Us to Number Our Days A worship service to start off a New Year. Worship Service | December 08, 2010 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 Step Up and Take Charge In this article Bob Langlois addresses that critical period of time before the worship service: the sound check. This can often be a frustrating time with too many leaders and not enough followers, and it can turn pretty ugly if someone doesn’t take charge. Langlois suggests that that person needs to be the sound engineer. —JB Article | December 08, 2010 The Trouble with Moralism You've probably noticed disconnects between what people say in worship and how they live. That’s why more church leaders are talking about the difference between moralism and genuine faith formation. They’re asking how worship can form people to picture faith and life as so much more than a list of do’s and don’ts. Article | December 01, 2010 On Three Meanings of the Term Worship The term “worship” for a dictionary on modern Christian usage would need to have at least three definitions. Article | Video | November 19, 2010 Why Not "Move" Advent to November? The lectionary says, “repent and prepare,” but the rhythms of many congregations say, “children’s Christmas program.” The calendar says, “fast and pray,” but Sunday schools schedule Christmas parties with cake and cookies. Advent says, “not yet, not yet,” but church-goers clamor to sing their favorite Christmas carols. Article | November 19, 2010 Let Them Hear: Why Not Get Your Church Looped? Most parishioners with hearing loss choose not to suffer the hassle and embarrassment of special receivers and headsets. Happily, there’s a better alternative—the broadcast of personalized sound directly through hearing aids. Article | November 19, 2010 Travels with Paul: Bringing the First Missionary Journey to Life—with Kids Keeping Paul’s missionary journeys straight can be tough. The stories are brief and many involve mostly preaching. It is hard to remember what happened. Our challenge was to communicate the information about Paul’s first missionary journey to our congregation in a way that was interesting, memorable, and brief. We wanted to present information about cities as well as people. Article | November 19, 2010 How to Develop a Requiem Choir: A Congregational Ministry for Funerals In the midst of life, we are in death.” But fewer and fewer of us share in the sad, sometimes openly commercial rituals that surround our final passage in this culture—more and more grieving family and close friends mourn by themselves. Article | November 19, 2010 Songwriters Tell Their Stories: Kids in costume introduce a service of songs Several well-known hymn writers “reappeared” recently for one hour in Bloomington, Minnesota. They were our guests at a hymn festival that was planned to build appreciation for the hymnody of the church among our children—and adults. Article | November 19, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses - About This Project Seminaries are the academic institutions where scholars study theology, and where pastors and other leaders are formed and trained for professional ministry in the church. Article | November 09, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Seminary Chapel Websites This list is a select review of items of interest found on seminary worship websites, organized according to common themes: Customaries, Denominational Diversity, Stylistic Variety, Curricular Integration, and Other issues. Article | November 03, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Seminary Chapel Survey In the spring of 2007, a questionnaire was sent to all ATS-accredited Protestant seminaries in the USA. The purpose of the study was to begin to map the range of practices and policies at the nation’s seminaries surrounding community worship. Thus, the questionnaire asked simple questions and invited reflection and feedback. The questions were divided into four primary categories: Leadership, Liturgy, Community, and Curriculum. Article | November 03, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Other Analytical Tools Surveys are wonderful – though limited – tools for gathering data on worship priorities and practices. The survey used by the CICW/Brehm study group asked broad questions in four categories: Leadership, Liturgy, Community, and Curriculum. Many other research goals and strategies might suggest other questions and/or analytical data-gathering mechanisms. Article | November 03, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Church at School and School at Church Nearly every seminary in North America worships together during the week. These services are central to a seminary’s communal life and work, for worship is deeply formative – spiritually, educationally, and institutionally. Yet there is significant variety in the ways in which seminary communities plan for, lead, and learn about worship. Article | November 03, 2010 An Introduction to Pentecost Season and Summer Your worship planning has likely been marked by a good bit of intensity in recent weeks. The season of Lent followed by Holy Week and Easter require a great deal of effort by worship planners, preachers, and worship leaders. The services have hopefully all had a consistent theme focused on the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord. Article | October 27, 2010 « Previous 5 6 7 8 9 ... Next »