The Treasure of African American Worship Traditions
Insights and Wisdom for Churches in Every Cultural Context.
February 20, 2015
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61 min video
Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
February 20, 2015
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64 min listen
If You Want Justice, Work for Beauty
Really? In the face of so much global need, the arts are a necessity?
February 18, 2015
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5 min read
Getting Started with the Christian Year
Any church leadership team that hopes to increase the observance of the Christian year in their congregation will first need to identify how much shaping influence this practice has at present.
February 16, 2015
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5 min read
Mennonite Church USA Worship Snapshot
A denominational guide to worship resources
February 12, 2015
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1 min read
Being Jesus on Good Friday
On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative.
February 11, 2015
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10 min read
Our worship is connected to miracles rather than to incarnation
Jorge Navarro found Christ amid the difficult life he had chosen to follow. Drugs of all kinds were his daily bread, until one day everything changed. The force that had fueled his down-slide was the same force that fueled his desire to passionately serve the one who called him.
February 11, 2015
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16 min read
Christian Reformed Church Worship Snapshot
A denominational guide to worship resources
February 11, 2015
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1 min read
The Christian Year: One Person’s Journey
How do you get started if your congregation and your staff knows little about the Christian Year? Some of you are undoubtedly in congregations that are quite familiar with it. But many others are not and don’t know quite where to begin.
February 6, 2015
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3 min read
The Christian Year: Some Key Questions
Obviously, this work of getting started on the Christian Year in your worship life is not going to be something you will tackle by yourself as a worship leader. You’ll need others to join you in learning and studying, in teaching and introducing, and in evaluating the progress your congregation makes.
February 6, 2015
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1 min read
The Christian Year: Two Vivid Pictures
We discover easily that visual communication is often most effective. So if we are going to teach the Christian Year to our congregation, some diagram or picture of the Christian Year is needed, or at least some helpful metaphor that will portray it’s dynamic.
February 6, 2015
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2 min read
The Christian Year: Six Steps for Getting Started
So now, here is your dilemma – you are leading a congregation that worships pretty well, but they don’t know much about the Christian Year. Outside of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Good Friday, and Easter, there’s isn’t much else about it. And what’s more, they don’t seem to miss it, or feel they ought to change things. And some of them are a bit suspicious of the whole idea. And besides, you don’t trust your knowledge about it all either, and you have no idea where to begin.
February 6, 2015
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3 min read
