Worship Planning
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Posted on August 25, 2011, 10:37 am | 40 comments
I would like to think that I am a Reformed Charismatic but I wonder what that means. So, here’s one attempt to clarify the convictions of a Christ-follower who believes that the Holy Spirit is alive and well and that John Calvin had a pretty good understanding of the apostle Paul.
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Posted on January 25, 2011, 3:08 pm
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The names in Matthew 1:1-17 give a thumbnail sketch of Jesus’ family. Don’t skip them; look up their names and stories in the Bible. All in some way point to or reveal Jesus, who redeems people and the world from sin. But some point very crookedly.
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Posted on January 18, 2011, 3:49 pm | 1 comment
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We hear a lot about wicked and dangerous stuff on the internet. But God is the Lord of all technology, including the internet, which can be used for much good. I'm going to invite you to check a four-minute video below of an enthusiastic eleven-year old boy powerfully declaiming in a service at Salem Lutheran Church, Tomball, Texas. (If the introductory frame actually introduces the speaker, he is Jack Stockton.) Here young Jack he names all 66 Bible books, mentioning briefly how each book reveals Jesus.
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Posted on September 23, 2010, 2:36 pm | 25 comments
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It appears that confessional preaching/teaching and the second worship services are both going the way of the dodo bird and passenger pigeon in most places in our denomination. Check out this article about second services by Matt Vande Bunte in a recent on-line issue of The Grand Rapids Press and then read on. I hope the article remains available for a while.
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Posted on June 29, 2010, 10:38 am | 17 comments
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Well, since my last blog post about ten days ago about a contemporary worship service Rose and I attended, there has been a fair bit of traffic on this page and a few comments--both on the Network and to my personal email. So now maybe it's time to keep the fires burning, the sparks flying, the synapses clicking (or whatever synapses do). A friend sent me the following link to a video that really...
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Posted on June 17, 2010, 6:39 pm | 5 comments
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We were on holidays and decided to go to a “contemporary service” in a CRC with nearly 100 years of history. Now, I LIKE to be critical—part of the "old man" still kicking around, I guess. But my wife is a kind and gentle and just woman. So, imagine my surprise the next day when she energetically called it a “dipstick” service. Yikes. How come?
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Posted on May 26, 2010, 4:07 pm
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The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has assembled a website that just keeps growing and growing with a great variety of helps, hints, resources for worship and Christian community. One of the most practical items on CICW site is the "Feature Stories . . . for learning, inspiration and group discussion." Take a look at this link to a particular worship story. It provides great hints about a detail of Christian and congregational hospitality often lost in the last-minute preparations for worship: What happens when a guest preacher visits your congregation?
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Posted on January 27, 2010, 7:59 am
Topics: Worship Planning
Reformed Worship is the well-known quarterly journal published by Faith Alive Resources. Its regular “Series for the Season” provides pastors and worship committees to plan worship with helpful, informed articles, sermon hints, music suggestions and often orders of worship and prayers that can be used, adapted and developed by worship planners.
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Posted on January 8, 2010, 5:12 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Worship Planning
"Worship Wars" have flared in many North America churches for fifteen years or so. Worship committees, council members, pastors and musicians have tangled about what fits in worship and what doesn't. Styles and content of songs, choices of instruments, to dance liturgically or not, to preach in monologue or dialogue, to use teaching devices such as overheads and slides or not--all have become heavy artillery in the wars.
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