All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt 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 1 - 9 of 9 Sort by: Title | Date Mandy Smith on The Vulnerable Pastor Christian leaders, especially pastors, sometimes feel bad about the gap between their ideal of Christlike ministry and the reality. Pastor Mandy Smith explains that honestly accepting vulnerabilities and human limitations makes room for God’s strength to be revealed in people and congregations. Conversation | November 05, 2019 Glorious Things of Me Are Spoken: The Vice of Vainglory “Vainglory” is an ancient name for showing off our goodness. Vainglory names the temptation to display our goodness in ways that undercut both it and the glory due to God for it. Article | August 11, 2016 The Wardrobe of Easter: Humility St. Paul commended it as a resurrection virtue. A humble person is within a millimeter of becoming like Christ himself, who “did not consider equality with God something to be grasped… but humbled himself and became obedient unto death—even death on a cross!” Reflection | April 17, 2014 Coop's Column - Generous Humility and Compassion: A Servant Spirit In this series of meditations on the work of the Holy Spirit, we are considering features the English Puritan Christians said are Spirit-prompted and Spirit-endowed and which more and more ought to mark the lives of those who aim to follow Jesus faithfully. Christians who do display these qualities are LUI— Living Under the Influence of the Spirit. In this article we consider the sixth of these marks: “Generous humility and compassion—a servant spirit.” Reflection | July 12, 2013 Robert Nordling on Orchestras as Models of Christian Formation In December 2012, Robert Nordling gave an extended interview. In this edited excerpt, he explains how orchestras can help Christians grow together in faith. Conversation | Video | February 14, 2013 Robert Nordling on Humility and Christian Leadership In December 2012, Robert Nordling gave an extended interview. In this edited excerpt, he talks about humility as a key to Christian leadership and formation during college. Conversation | Video | February 14, 2013 Getting Past the Fish: The Book of Jonah for Christian Worship The book of Jonah is replete with themes near to the heart of Christian life, worship, and witness. Audio | January 01, 2009 The Poor Man's Ruler - Micah 5 An Advent service plan focused on Micah's prophecies of hope, how God brought the Messiah to the world through little Bethlehem, and how God is able to bring the "big" out of the "little" in a series on Micah and the hope that he pronounced. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Beatitudes Series: Blessed Are the Meek - Psalm 37, Matthew 5, Luke 8 A service plan focused on the Beatitudes and the blessing on those who are meek in a series on the Beatitudes. Worship Service | June 01, 2005
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