Ash Wednesday Meditation
An Ash Wednesday Meditation by Debra Rienstra
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?
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
Coop's Column - God Wearing Skin
Christians believe the transcendent, holy, and eternal God, who is pure Spirit, took on weak, decaying flesh.
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.
Together in the Word
A look at Bible Studies and the power of scripture when looking at it together.
Coop's Column - Father - Like He Tends and Spares Us
Jesus never tired of referring to God as his Father.
Coop's Column - Cultivating Attentiveness
There’s a world of difference between hearing and listening.
Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Reflections
A collection of responses from the Seminary Chapel Colloquium.
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.”
Meditations on Lenten Hymns
These meditations on frequently used Lenten hymns will help you plan worship for Lent.
Collaboration in Worship Planning (Bible Study)
Ministry goes forward when faith-filled people work together collaboratively! Collaborators are co-laborers. They contribute from the field of their own gifts and passions. But they do not labor in isolation. Their labors are so interwoven that the final product is a composite. A group effort is genuinely the product of the entire group, not merely a modified solo plan"