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"Designed to the Inheritance of Jesus" blog entry from Coop's Column.
A worship service held on the biblical vision of heaven and hope.
We are what we love. This biblical notion is found across the Christian tradition, from Paul and Augustine to Luther and Edwards. But what are its implications for worship? Explore how Christian worship forms and shapes our love to make us a people who desire the kingdom of God, as well as how Christian worship counters the formation of "secular liturgies."
“Worship leaders have a responsibility to teach by conversational example so that they move people beyond likes and preferences,” says Joyce Ann Zimmerman, who founded the Institute for Liturgical Ministry to help form ministers in the liturgical life of the Roman Catholic Church.
Asking good questions helps congregations move worship forward. They move from the language of preference to the language of full, active, conscious participation in worship.
One of my former pastors told me that in his -then- 27 years of ministry in five different congregations he had met only two persons-an elderly wife and husband-who lived in daily excitement at the fact that Jesus shall come again. At every day's beginning they exclaimed to each other, "This could be the day! Let's be ready to greet our Lord!"
A list of songs to shape the Easter season.
Conversation with Swee Hong Lim on Asian Christian worship practices
A reflection from Mark Neleson, Zeeland, Michigan on "The Church of All Ages"
Mery Elder, Fredericktown, Ohio, reflects on "The Church of All Ages"
This conversation explored issues of justice and peace in the Middle East, and reflected on the question: what it is like to be a Christian and a woman in the Middle East today?
A reflection from Karen Bables, Holland, Michigan on he book "The Church of all Ages"
