thoughts and links on worship, theology, and congregational life
from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
April 16th, 2009
In staff meeting this week we sang SNC #150, “Alleluia! Jesus is Risen” (text by Herbert Brokering), including verse 5: City of God, Easter forever, golden Jerusalem, Jesus the Lamb, river of life, saints and archangels,sing with creation to God the I AM! Jesus is risen and we shall arise:give God the glory! Alleluia!
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April 12th, 2009
N.T. Wright, from Surprised by Hope: Insofar as the [resurrection] is interpreted in [the New Testament], it has a very “this-worldly” meaning, relating to what is happening here and now. “Jesus is raised,” [the apostles] say, “therefore he is the Messiah; he is the true Lord of the whole world; therefore we, his followers, have [...]
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April 10th, 2009
From the Open Sourcebook: (about this website) We have run to the tomb. We have squinted inside the darkness. We have seen a pile of cloth where we expected a corpse. We have been reprimanded by the angel, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?’ We have been astonished, confused, exhilarated. We [...]
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April 10th, 2009
From the Open Sourcebook: (about this website) Lord Jesus,wounded God. For us you turned yourself in.For us you felt the whip on your back.For us you kept silent as false accusations swirled.For us you marched to the place of death.For us you were nailed to a cross.For us you breathed your last. All for us, [...]
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April 10th, 2009
From “One Long Day,” a riveting telling of how the crucifixion may have coincided with the Passover ceremonies in Jerusalem, in a special Passover edition of Messiah magazine, published by First Fruits of Zion (the article begins on p.26): continued…
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April 8th, 2009
From CRCNA.org: Justice Congregational Song Contest The Office of Social Justice, Reformed Worship, and the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship are pleased to announce a song contest on the topic of Justice. The search committee encourages submissions from CRC members representing varying ages, ethnicities, and worship sytles. New texts should be accompanied by a tune [...]
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April 8th, 2009
From the newsletter of the International Council of Ethnodoxologists, reflecting on this recent event(pdf), funded in part by a Worship Renewal Grant: One participant wrote describing their Sunday worship service after theconference, saying “We did ‘With One Heart’ [bilingual theme song written byJosh Davis, listen and see a video] and had a trio of Mexican [...]
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April 8th, 2009
Believing that intergenerational worship is aided by cross-generational relationships in other areas of church life, Trinity United Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana, California set out to use one of its distinctive strengths to help advance this important agenda. A special project was undertaken in Fall 2009, the results of which may inspire other congregations to identify their strengths and seek to build intergenerational relationships around and through them. Here is this church’s story.
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April 8th, 2009
My wife was assigned this article for a social work class: The Myth of Cross-Cultural CompetenceRuth G. DeanFamilies in Society, 2001, v. 82, no. 6 The title caught my eye and led me to this provocative paragraph: The purpose of this article is to show that the conceptof multicultural competence is flawed. I believe it [...]
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