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Reflection | March 29, 2011 Coop's Column - He Ascended to Heaven God’s Word declares that Jesus, his appointed task on earth having been finished, returned to his Father in heaven. Trusting that Word, Christians triumphantly confess the words in the Apostle’s Creed: “He ascended into heaven.” Reflection | March 11, 2011 Wrapping up Two Reading Groups During the fall of 2010, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship sponsored two sets of book groups using two of our recent publications: Worship Words, by Debra Rienstra and Ron Rienstra and Shaped by God, edited by Robert Keeley. Reflection | March 02, 2011 Restorative Justice Prayer Request List A list of people and situations to pray for. Article | Reflection | February 24, 2011 Coop's Column - Risen Indeed "On the third day he arose again from the dead." Simple words often capture life's most profound and important truths the best. How better, therefore, for Christians to make their most astonishing declaration about Jesus Christ than by this direct, unadorned, and so forthrightly clear confession? Reflection | February 11, 2011 Report from the World Christian Gathering on Indigenous Peoples Report from Mark Charles, Resource Development Specialist for Indigenous Worship, on the World Christian Gathering on Indigenous Peoples. Reflection | January 14, 2011 Coop's Column - So Marred, So Beautiful Their suffering Savior’s immense love for them, far beyond their mind’s feeble ability to grasp or comprehend, now prompts Christians to worship him Reflection | January 14, 2011 Coop's Column - God Wearing Skin Christians believe the transcendent, holy, and eternal God, who is pure Spirit, took on weak, decaying flesh. Reflection | December 20, 2010 Coop's Column - No Mother Half So Mild Since both God and humans are personal, we humans can grow both in knowledge of and intimacy with God. In fact, we must grow. For to love God more and more requires that we learn more and more about God. Reflection | December 10, 2010 Coop's Column - Father - Like He Tends and Spares Us Jesus never tired of referring to God as his Father. Reflection | December 03, 2010 Coop's Column - Cultivating Attentiveness There’s a world of difference between hearing and listening. Reflection | November 19, 2010 Coop's Column - Craving to be Adored The longer I live, the more I become convinced three things are true: 1. God does exist 2. I am not God. 3. The first two points are worth remembering—always.” Wise words from an aged Roman Catholic priest. How easy to slip into the sin of what St. Paul terms “thinking too highly of ourselves.” Reflection | October 29, 2010 Meditations on Lenten Hymns These meditations on frequently used Lenten hymns will help you plan worship for Lent. Article | Reflection | October 22, 2010 Prayer for the Darfuri Loving God, we cry out to you on behalf of the people of the Darfur region. Article | Reflection | October 21, 2010 Coop's Column - Belonging Lonesomeness, that bleak and desperate feeling of abandonment and forsakenness, is the worst—the absolute worst—that can overtake any human being. Reflection | October 19, 2010 Coop's Column - Prone to Wander Rarely—almost never—do married persons make it their aim to get into an extra-marital relationship—to have an “affair.” Reflection | September 24, 2010 Coop's Column - Glorify the Lord with Me Modernity has a kind of airy weightlessness, a lack of seriousness and significance. So, when it comes to the matter of “setting their minds on things eternal”—that is, of paying any heed to the world beyond sight and sound—most contemporary people are pretty breezy and airy. Reflection | September 17, 2010 Coop's Column - Declaration of Dependence To be human is to be in need—in need of God and of one another. And to remain fully human—indeed, to flourish in it—requires that we stay in touch with, remain keenly aware of, that need. Reflection | September 10, 2010 « Previous 6 7 8 9 Next »