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New Film “Reparando” Explores Theology of the Cross

Posted by Joan Huyser-Honig

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Once you start getting to know people who are suffering, you can’t help but wonder how to see God in their midst or how to explain Christ’s death on the cross as good news for them now. Joel Van Dyke, a missionary who works in Guatemala’s slums and prisons, helps urban missions graduate students flesh out [...]

Is Suffering an Essential Part of Christian Discipleship?

Posted by Joan Huyser-Honig

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Suffering for Christ is the main Lausanne Conversation topic for August 2010. In “To Serve Is to Suffer,” Ajith Fernando explores the paradox that measuring ministry by efficiency, numerical results, and a sense of fulfillment can make a church “ineffective in evangelism.” Fernando has been national director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka since 1976. The [...]

Bookshelf: Christian Preaching: A Trinitarian Theology of Proclamation by Michael Pasquarello

Posted by cicw

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Christian Preaching: A Trinitarian Theology of ProclamationMichael PasquarelloBaker Academic, 2006; ISBN 0801027608 | | There are many books that give preachers hints about engaging speaking or methods for creating sermons. This homiletics primer focuses not on the “how to” of preaching but on the theological foundation of the very act of preaching itself, introducing students [...]

Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

Posted by cicw

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

[re-post from 5/22/07] The title of Leon Wood’s 1976 book The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (Zondervan) caught my eye recently. So did Christopher Wright’s excellent new book Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament (IVP Academic, 2006). “[There] is a widespread lack of awareness among many Christian people of the identity, presence, [...]

Theolog on 'Preaching ethics in the recession'

Posted by cicw

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

From Theolog: What is there to say to an economically stressed congregation these days? Here’s my answer: begin with biblical basics, and refuse to be intimidated by the complexities of the recession. continued…

N.T. Wright on the true meaning of Easter

Posted by cicw

Sunday, 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 [...]

Response to 'Strike the Empire Back' at Catapult

Posted by cicw

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I thought this was a very insightful response by David Koyzis to catapult’s issue on Christians and empire (which itself was very insightful): When I read catapult’s recent issue on empire, my response was admittedly one of ambivalence. Ambivalence, because, on the one hand, there is no doubt that evil works its way into political, [...]

Presenter Previews: Simon Chan at Symposium 2009

Posted by cicw

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be Simon Chan of Trinity Theological College in Singapore. Last year Christianity Today said of Chan, author of Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community, that he “may be the world’s most liturgically minded Pentecostal” (read its interview with him). Chan will be [...]

Theology Today archive on Google Books

Posted by cicw

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I just noticed that Google Books is now offering searchable archives of many magazines, including Theology Today. So far it seems to have only editions from the 1940s through the 1960s, but it’s worth keeping an eye on. TT’s website also has a partial archive of articles online. By the way, also see Rob Bradshaw’s [...]

'Almighty Babe, whose tender arms can force all foes to fly'

Posted by cicw

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

This Christmas we’ll be dwelling on these words from Robert Southwell’s provocative poem ‘A Child My Choice,’ which was sung in this year’s Lessons and Carols concert: Alas! he weeps, he sighs, he pants, yet do his angels sing;out of his tears, his sighs, and throbs, doth bud a joyful spring.Almighty Babe, whose tender arms [...]

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Worship Weblog

All posts about ‘theology’

New Film “Reparando” Explores Theology of the Cross

Is Suffering an Essential Part of Christian Discipleship?

Bookshelf: Christian Preaching: A Trinitarian Theology of Proclamation by Michael Pasquarello

Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

Theolog on 'Preaching ethics in the recession'

N.T. Wright on the true meaning of Easter

Response to 'Strike the Empire Back' at Catapult

Presenter Previews: Simon Chan at Symposium 2009

Theology Today archive on Google Books

'Almighty Babe, whose tender arms can force all foes to fly'

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