Web Highlighter – July 1, 2009
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
- What's New at CICW?
- Blog and Twitter
• John Calvin’s 500th
• Story: Music in Ireland
• Grants Colloquium
• Recent Posts
Let us engrave this useful lesson upon our hearts, that we should consider it the great end of our existence to be found numbered among the worshipers of God; and that we should avail ourselves of the inestimable privilege of the stated assemblies of the Church, which are necessary helps to our infirmity, and means of mutual excitement and encouragement. By these, and our common sacraments, the Lord who is one God, and who designed that we should be one in him, is training us up together in the hope of eternal life, and in the united celebration of his holy name.
- John Calvin, from his commentary on Psalm 52
John Calvin, a pastor and theologian who played a central role in the Protestant Reformation, was born on July 10, 1509. He is the namesake for Calvin College and Seminary, where the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is located. As his 500th birthday approaches, we are celebrating the work and legacy of this historic figure and wise teacher.
www.calvin.edu/worship/resources/calvin500
…for inspiration, reflection, and group discussion
Music and Worship Help Heal Northern Ireland
The 2009 Easter service at First Islandmagee Presbyterian Church included a bodhran in the worship band. For minister Karen Campbell, that drum was a sign that the future for her young sons "is more hopeful than it has ever been before in my lifetime."
When Campbell was growing up in Northern Ireland, barricades closed down her town each night to prevent street riots between Protestants and Catholics. Each town had a strong army presence. "It was common to have your belongings searched if you entered a shop on the main street," she recalls.
"When growing up, we would have been taught strictly Christian songs, not Celtic ones. I did not see the bodhran [traditional Irish drum associated with Catholics] being played until I went to college," she says.
www.calvin.edu/worship/stories/irish_worship.php
photo by grant recipient Bruce Benedict
Last month our grant recipients from around the continent gathered at Calvin College for a time of learning, worship, and fellowship. Posters and pictures from this event will be posted later this month. Please pray for the leaders beginning their grant projects, that their work will bear fruit in their worshiping communities.
www.calvin.edu/worship/grants/colloq
- Remembering John Stek
– Video: Walter Brueggemann on Preaching
Articles We’ve Linked to on Twitter [what's this?]
- From @ccel: Classic Sermon: George White
field on Gen. 5:24 http://twurl.nl/umlwsj
- From @andyrowell: – My new website www.theologicalgerman.com is up.
- From @dahornor: A good, but preliminary, discussion on the relationship between church and kingdom: http://tinyurl.com/kksdm3
www.calvin.edu/worship/twitter
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