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Worship resources for World Refugee Day, Sunday, June 20, 2010

Posted by Joan Huyser-Honig

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Churches around the world will observe World Refugee Day on Sunday, June 20, 2010. In the U.K. this Sunday is the culmination of Refugee Week (June 14-20). Use worship resources from Church World Service, Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ, United Methodists, or your own denomination. In the U.S., this Sunday is also Father’s Day. [...]

Remembering John Stek

Posted by cicw

Friday, June 12th, 2009

We mourn the death and celebrate the life of John Stek, longtime professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary and instrumental figure in the NIV and TNIV translations of the Bible. Read tributes from the Christian Reformed Church and Grand Rapids Press. Read articles by Dr. Stek:• review of ‘The Psalms Through 3000 Years’ [...]

Call to Worship for Easter: "We have run to the tomb"

Posted by cicw

Friday, 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 [...]

Prayer for Good Friday: "For us…"

Posted by cicw

Friday, 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, [...]

The Burial

Posted by cicw

Friday, April 10th, 2009

From the same article: continued…

The Third Hour

Posted by cicw

Friday, 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…

Thomas Long on the dangling ending of Mark

Posted by cicw

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

From the Christian Century: Most New Testament scholars say that the Gospel of Mark originally ended with the story of the women who go to the cemetery, only to encounter a mysterious young man pointing to Jesus’ empty tomb and announcing the resurrection. One of the challenges of this view is that if Mark truly [...]

Free TNIV on Kindle

Posted by cicw

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Attention owners of Kindle e- book readers (or the Kindle app for iPhone): the TNIV (Today’s New International Version) is currently being offered for free at Amazon’s Kindle Store! Avail yourself of digital access to this excellent recent Bible translation.

'The Sound of the Wind' by Arlissa Vaughn

Posted by cicw

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

From Comment: © Arlissa Vaughn When Nicodemus questioned Jesus about how to be born again, Jesus replied with a beautifully poetic response from which we can learn a great deal. The Sound of the Wind was created as meditation of verse 8 from the Gospel of John, “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear [...]

lectio: 'I see a branch of an almond tree'

Posted by cicw

Monday, March 9th, 2009

resonant word or phrase from today’s reading Jeremiah 1:11The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.” Commentary:• ‘… [...]

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All posts about ‘scripture’

Worship resources for World Refugee Day, Sunday, June 20, 2010

Remembering John Stek

Call to Worship for Easter: "We have run to the tomb"

Prayer for Good Friday: "For us…"

The Burial

The Third Hour

Thomas Long on the dangling ending of Mark

Free TNIV on Kindle

'The Sound of the Wind' by Arlissa Vaughn

lectio: 'I see a branch of an almond tree'

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