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An order of worship planned around Hebrews 11, originally held at the Calvin Symposium on Worship. The fourth of a six-part series on the book of Hebrews from the 2008 Symposium on Worship. These services are designed to rejuvenate the vigor of the faithful by returning us to our first love: our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ.
Jesus' call to discipleship in Matthew 16:24 forms the heart and structure of this sample worship service plan.
The first service plan in a Pentecost series, focusing on the statement in the Apostles' Creed concerning the "holy catholic church, the communion of saints" based on Acts 2 and Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 2.
A service plan from the Apostles' Creed focused on Christian hope and confidence in our own resurrection to eternal life in a series on the Apostles' Creed as explained in the Heidelberg Catechism.
A service plan for Eastertide focused on the resurrection of Jesus' friend Lazarus in an Eastertide series focusing on Bible stories that occurred before Christ's resurrection but which shed light on how we should live after his resurrection.
An order of worship planned around 2 Corinthians 3, originally held at the Calvin Symposium on Worship.
A service plan focused on the first commandment and God's exclusive claim on our lives as both our creator and our deliverer in a series on the Ten Commandments, as explained in the Heidelberg Catechism.
A short service of prayer and lament in response to the tragedy of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
A service plan focusing on the struggle with seemingly unanswered prayers, the nature of God and the nature of faith in a series addressing difficult questions of the faith.
A service plan based on Proverbs 6:6-8 and Ephesians 4:25-32 focused on the style of work that characterizes Christians in a series on vocation and how our faith and our work are integrated.
A service plan focused on responses and emotions in worship. Our faith gives us reason for great joy, but we also experience much pain and sorrow in this world. Part of a series of sermons pairing together some of the seemingly irreconcilable paradoxes in the Christian faith.
A worship service plan flowing from the statement that Christian faith "can be found in the deepest despair and at the greatest joy." Habakkuk reminds us that true faith does not ignore life's problems, but meets them head on.
