Worship
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Posted on May 12, 2012, 2:31 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Worship
Transformation begins in a church family when there is enough interaction to make this authenticity contagious. It is liberating to throw off pretense, to admit insufficiencies, and to become completely dependent on God.
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Posted on November 28, 2011, 4:11 pm
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When we hope, we join with God’s people throughout the ages in placing our future with him. God holds firmly in his hand the future of each Christian and the future of the church.
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Posted on October 31, 2011, 2:50 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Worship
I am the mother of a special needs child with a cognitive impairment. This presents various blessings and challenges for our family. One of the things that we have wrestled with for years, is whether or not our child would ever partake in communion.
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Posted on October 25, 2011, 1:30 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Worship
Because individuals with intellectual disabilities could not grasp many of the theological principles that pastors and councils considered core to our Reformed faith, they were judged to be spiritually immature and incapable of making a public profession. Thank God that perspective has changed.
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Posted on October 24, 2011, 2:07 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Worship
Anonymous comment cards that invite people to express their personal preferences in worship are actually encouraging the congregation to indulge in selfishness and sin. We need to find healthier ways to engage in conversation about worship.
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Posted on September 20, 2011, 8:19 am | 2 comments
Topics: Worship
Christianity Today reports, "In North Carolina, Elevation Church leaders removed a boy with cerebral palsy from church because he was disrupting the service. Then asks six prominent worship leaders to the question: “Should churches try to minimize disruptions in services?”
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Posted on March 2, 2011, 4:02 pm
Topics: Worship
Beyond the glitter, Christmas means that God took on human form. When he did that, in a very real sense, God became the disabled God. This article in The Banner, "Made Like Us," considers God's clothing himself with disability in Christ's incarnation, life, suffering, and death. This online version includes discussion questions which could be used in a youth or adult small group especially during Advent.
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Posted on December 14, 2010, 8:42 am | 1 comment
Topics: Worship
What happens when our own fears, preoccupations, and self-pity get in the way of our worship of the new born King?
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Posted on November 19, 2010, 3:27 pm
Topics: Worship
This church looks like a new model for a church plant. Not a church for people with disabilities, nor a church that ministers to people with disabilities, nor even a church that includes people with disabilities, but a church whose organizing principle is engagement of people of varying abilities in all aspects of ministry.
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Posted on November 4, 2010, 3:27 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Worship
Without intending to, worship planners, tech crews, and secretaries create handouts and slides that are difficult to read for people with visual impairments. These guidelines will help a church make their electronic and print materials more accessible and useful for all members of the congregation.
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Posted on August 4, 2010, 9:28 am
Topics: Worship
Taking her son with special needs to Sunday services taught Heather Moffitt how to be broken in church. Her church community learned more about loving parents and children.
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Posted on July 23, 2010, 9:34 am
Topics: Worship
Paul Buursma, a member of Covenant Christian Reformed Church in Cutlerville, Michigan, uses a wheelchair. This testimony would be effective during worship services focusing on disability awareness, right to life, the image of God, and Psalm 139.
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Posted on March 4, 2010, 8:52 am | 6 comments
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With the winter Olympics just behind us, the word "excellence" easily comes to mind. The athletes displayed brilliant excellence on the short track, the half pipe, the slope, and many other venues. After years of intense training with the world's greatest coaches these young men and women dazzled us with a feats of athleticism so that shockingly difficult maneuvers looked easy.
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Posted on December 9, 2009, 9:11 pm
Topics: Worship
Disability Concerns has many resources for disability awareness worship services including messages, litanies, and two week-long devotionals collected on this one page.
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