Faith Formation

How Online Worship Can Build Community

You don’t need to be a wealthy megachurch to welcome and serve online worshipers, but it helps to have an online usher.

November 9, 2011 | 6 min read
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.

November 4, 2011 | 3 min read
Worship, Worldview, and Way of Life

How does Christian worship form and support a Christian way of life? How do worship services reflect and promote particular Christian practices and ways of thinking?

October 24, 2011 | 1 min read

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.

October 19, 2011 | 4 min read
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.

October 5, 2011 | 3 min read

Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: The Transformer's Aim

The Spirit’s aim is to give people aim in life. He seeks to direct them along a path which shall enable them, at their life’s close, to have marked progress in learning Christ’s deeper ways, in growing to love him more and more.

September 20, 2011 | 3 min read

Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Transformer

“The Holy Spirit is writing us into the revelation, the story of salvation. We find ourselves in the story as followers of Jesus. … Our task is to obey—believingly, trustingly obey.”

September 20, 2011 | 4 min read
Aminah Al-Attas Bradford on Bodily Christian Life for College Students

Aminah talks about presenting the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship as a gift to Barnabas Team volunteers.

September 19, 2011 | 4 min read
Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Guide

With “two hands,” said St. Irenaeus, third-century bishop of Lyons, God teaches and guides his people—with the Word and the Spirit. In the last column we focused on the Spirit’s role in writing the Word. In this column we look at the Spirit’s work in guiding God’s people as they read and apply it.

September 1, 2011 | 4 min read