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Seven Psalmfest Tips to Design Your Song Festival

Dozens of Psalmfests held throughout the U.S. and Canada yielded advice that your congregation, college, seminary, or organization can use to plan a festival of psalms, hymns, or other Christian songs.

April 8, 2013 | 6 min read
Psalmfests Bring Psalms into the Heart of Worship

Psalmfests, public festivals based on Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship, help worshipers cross boundaries of time and tradition, to explore the full spectrum of psalm singing.

April 8, 2013 | 6 min read
Coop's Column- Risen With Jesus

Jesus' triumph over the grave has enduring impact. The fact of his having arisen involves our rising with him to new life. His living presence now indwells us. Thus, to remember him today is to know him as fully alive.

April 5, 2013 | 3 min read

Coop's Column - Risen Indeed

"All suffering, trouble, and despair are now taken away, because of Jesus’ great love for me when he took up his cross, went to Calvary, and rose again on Easter."

March 29, 2013 | 4 min read
Coop's Column - Jesus Condemned and Crucified

Ibis ad crucem! You shall go to the cross! With these three words Pilate condemned Jesus to die by crucifixion. In this Lenten series we have been paying visits to several places where Jesus stopped as he with his disciples made his final journey to Jerusalem to die.

March 25, 2013 | 3 min read
Coop's Column - The Lord's Example, the Teacher's Command

Maundy Thursday. The name comes from the Latin, novum mandatum or “new commandment” and recalls the event of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet.

March 25, 2013 | 4 min read

Coop's Column - Royally Welcomed

It’s Passover festival in Jerusalem, the holiest season in the Jewish year. Thousands upon thousands of Jewish pilgrims have been travelling toward the Holy City to remember and celebrate God’s rescue of his people from long and heavy bondage in Egypt. As Jesus enters Jerusalem riding upon that lowly donkey, the mood of the thronging multitude turns deliriously jubilant. The people walk beside him as he rides, and laud him loudly as “King of the Jews.”

March 21, 2013 | 3 min read
Ascension, Adoption, and Homecoming

Second plenary by Tom Boogaart from With a Shout, a day-long conference held in 2006 exploring the meaning of the Ascension culminated in a community worship service at Woodlawn CRC.

March 20, 2013 | 1 min read
With a Shout: What Difference Does the Ascension Make for Everyday Life?

This day-long conference in 2006 explored the meaning of the Ascension through worship, seminars and culminated in a community worship service at Woodlawn CRC.

March 20, 2013 | 1 min read

Songs for Ascension: Looking Beyond Your Hymnal

Breakout session by Greg Scheer from With a Shout, a day-long conference held in 2006 exploring the meaning of the Ascension culminated in a community worship service at Woodlawn CRC.

March 20, 2013 | 9 min read
Maria Cornou on the Most-used Spanish-language Bible Translation

Maria Eugenia Cornou is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this edited conversation, she discusses the most-used Spanish-language Bible translation.

March 19, 2013 | 4 min read