https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:29:58 +0000 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-staff-life-150-bosses Thrive exists to equip and encourage congregations across our denomination. One area of recurring challenge is in the area of what are commonly referred to as “human resources” issues. (e.g. Thrive (CRCNA) https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-staff-life-150-bosses Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/thrive-book-discussion-live-conversation-dr-w-david-o-taylor ....a respected theologian and pastor argues in this book that there is something for our physical bodies to do that decisively forms Christlikeness in us within the context of corporate worship. What we do with our postures, gestures, and movements in worship matters. Thrive (CRCNA) https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/thrive-book-discussion-live-conversation-dr-w-david-o-taylor Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/adventchristmas-worship-planning-roundtable-afternoon-and-evening Join us on Zoom on Thursday, October 19 for an Advent/Christmas worship planning roundtable. Come with ideas to share. Leave with ideas for what you might want to do in your church this year. Come plan with the planners! Two sessions offered: Thrive (CRCNA) https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/adventchristmas-worship-planning-roundtable-afternoon-and-evening Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/awakening-program-hope-college-raising-worship-leaders People often ask me: “How did you get into ministry?" Katie Ritsema-Roelofs https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/awakening-program-hope-college-raising-worship-leaders Sun, 26 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/where-did-you-worship-sunday Where did you worship this past Sunday? Drop a comment and let us know!  Staci Devries https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/where-did-you-worship-sunday Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:57:57 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/curiouser-and-curiouser When I was I college, I lived for three years on the Honors Floor, an intentional living-learning floor in the dorms for students who were, well, rather keen on their studies. Laura de Jong https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/curiouser-and-curiouser Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/vacant-church-worship-leader-roundtable-march-9-zoom Are you a worship leader serving in a church that's currently without a pastor? This presents many unique challenges! Thrive (CRCNA) https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/vacant-church-worship-leader-roundtable-march-9-zoom Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-songs-current-favorites-1 What are your current favorites? I’ll go first. Staci Devries https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-songs-current-favorites-1 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:49:22 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/handels-messiah-and-divine-comfort "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for." Isaiah 40:1,2 Lloyd Wolters https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/handels-messiah-and-divine-comfort Tue, 10 May 2022 13:13:50 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/why-youth-dont-new-worship-songs A recent Banner article titled Why Youth Don't Like New Worship Songs generated robust discussion (over 6 Staci Devries https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/why-youth-dont-new-worship-songs Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:57:40 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/song-resurrection A poem celebrating Jesus' resurrection.  Theodore Lim https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/song-resurrection Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:48:45 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/congregational-worship-endangered-species I attended worship in person last Sunday. We were about twenty percent full, I would say. Debra Rienstra https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/congregational-worship-endangered-species Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:39:52 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/where-did-you-worship-past-sunday Where did you worship this past Sunday? Drop a comment and let us know!  Staci Devries https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/where-did-you-worship-past-sunday Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:47:20 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/virgin-mary-shows-us-time-praising "At that time, Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah, where she entered Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth." Luke 1:39 The town Mary visited is now called Ein Karem. It is a village several miles west of Jerusalem. Lloyd Wolters https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/virgin-mary-shows-us-time-praising Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:45:05 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/gospel-handshake-worship-ministry-peer-learning-group For the past church season (September 2020 to June 2021), coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Worship Ministry Team at Covenant CRC in St. Catharines, Ont., has had the pleasure of participating in a Peer Learning Group. Elly Boersma https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/gospel-handshake-worship-ministry-peer-learning-group Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:29:49 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-songs-difficult-times I don't need to tell you that these are challenging times. Daily we see reminders of the brokenness in our churches and communities. This past week I have two friends whose parents were put on ventilators due to COVID. Some days the pain is too much.  Staci Devries https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-songs-difficult-times Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:05:35 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-typos-and-being-alive-jesus “Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in” —Anthem, Leonard Cohen Trudy Prins https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/worship-typos-and-being-alive-jesus Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:07:04 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/hands-jesus "When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them."—Luke 24:50 Lloyd Wolters https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/hands-jesus Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:22:19 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/handels-messiah-and-navajo-shepherds I have to admit something to you that may affect our relationship forever. I have not been a big fan of Handel’s Messiah. I don’t get the hype and the obsession of that tradition. Carol Bremer-Bennett https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/handels-messiah-and-navajo-shepherds Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:15:39 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/hope Our family Christmas card this year includes my daughter’s painted wreath with the word "hope." When she was working on it we talked about what word to put in the middle. Joyce Borger https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/hope Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:11:30 +0000