All posts about ‘history’
How to Plan Worship that Appeals to Many Generations
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Many worship planners wonder how to plan intergenerational worship that engages people of different ages. One problem is that people often prefer the kind of worship they grew up with. Another problem is that most worshipers aren’t all that aware of what’s changed or stayed the same in 2,000 years of Christian worship. That’s why [...]
Tags: history, intergenerational, planning
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Q&A with Jamie Smith on 'Desiring the Kingdom'
Monday, December 21st, 2009
A version of this interview appears at ThinkChristian. Augustine, you argue, had it right: it’s not what we know, it’s what and whom we love. How and why did Christians start to get this wrong? Somehow we started to see ourselves differently. What we thought—the ideas and beliefs we had in our head—were seen as [...]
Tags: formation, history, jkasmith, philosophy, publications, worldview
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'Cradle of our Faith' DVD looks at Middle East Christians
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
From crcna.org: The Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice is offering for free “The Cradle of Our Faith,” a half-hour DVD that looks at the plight of Christians in modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, and Egypt. Produced by the CRC in conjunction with the Reformed Church in America, the video also provides [...]
Tags: history, middleeast, mideastchurches, video, world
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Book reception for translation of Abraham Kuyper's 'On Worship'
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Held outside our office this morning; learn more about the book here.
Tags: congregations, dutch, history, kuyper, publications, translation
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Smithsonian magazine on the preservation of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I clipped this article a few months ago from Smithsonian magazine on the struggle to preserve the Hagia Sophia, the 1,500-year-old worship space in Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia was the place of which, according to legend, Prince Vladmir’s representatives said after attending an Eastern Orthodox worship service, “We did not know whether we were in [...]
Tags: architecture, culture, eorthodoxy, HagiaSophia, history, space, world
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New books: 'Pastor as Minor Poet,' 'Inclusive Yet Discerning,' and more
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
We’re delighted to introduce several new books in our publications series over the last few months: A Primer on Christian WorshipWilliam A. DyrnessPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 Abraham Kuyper: Our WorshipHarry BoonstraPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 Inclusive Yet DiscerningFrank Burch BrownPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 The Pastor as Minor PoetM. Craig BarnesPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 When God Speaks Through [...]
Tags: history, pastors, publications
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Will Willimon: in praise of contemporary worship
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
From Will Willimon’s blog: I hear that a number of our thriving churches are taking a critical look at their “contemporary worship” services – the services that we began over a decade ago that feature electronic, “contemporary” music and images. We appear to be moving to more eclectic, “ancient-future,” blended sorts of services. I’ve sure [...]
Tags: change, contemporary, history, music, pastors, z00011
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Phillip Jenkins on Recovering the Ancient Church of the Middle East
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Phillip Jenkins, in an interview with Christianity Today: (also see his article for CT on recovering the history of the Eastern Church) [The] Eastern world has a solid claim to be the direct lineal heir of the earliest New Testament Christianity. Throughout their history, the Eastern churches used Syriac, which is close to Jesus’s own [...]
Tags: history, News, world
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The historical 12 Days of Christmas – a reminder, and a website
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Terry Mattingly often writes this time of year about the historical roots of the season of Christmas, which on the church calendar begins on Dec. 25 and ends on Jan. 5 before Epiphany. The meaning of this liturgical practice can be lost on Christians living in modern Western societies that consider the Christmas season to [...]
Tags: advent, christmas, epiphany, history, year
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Augustine on Psalm 42 at Baptism
Posted by cicw
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
This article mentions that Augustine refers to Psalm 42 as a baptismal declaration. Here is the quote from Augustine’s commentary on Psalm 42: And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. On which account too this Psalm [...]
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Tags: augustine, baptism, commentary, earlychurch, history, psalms
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