Issue #55: March 2000

Editorial: Where Two or Three Are Gathered: The definition of what constitutes a worshiping community is changing
by Emily R. Brink

Perspectives: Planning Ahead: How one pastor was delivered from Monday morning madness
by John Ooms

Perspectives: Blended Worship: What it is, what it isn't
by Constance Cherry

Series for the Season: On our way to the Celestial City: six service plans with dramas based on The Pilgrim's Progress, page 1 of 2
by Henry Admiraal

Series for the Season: On our way to the Celestial City: six service plans with dramas based on The Pilgrim's Progress, page 2 of 2

Perspectives: Pentecost Picnic: How the Spirit made what was all wrong go all right
by Jane Tiemersma Vogel

Perspectives: Ten Questions Youth Leaders Ask About Worship: Sally Morgenthaler and Robert Webber respond
by Sally Morgenthaler, Robert E. Webber

View from the Pew: Warthogs: Why professor Farnsworth didn't go to chapel
by James Calvin Schaap

Perspectives: Caught Up in the Cloud: Rescuing the Ascension story from familiarity
by Arlo D. Duba

Songs for the Season: Clap Your Hands, All You Nations; Through All the World; I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sings; Come, Holy Spirit; Now Go in Peace
by Emily R. Brink

Resources: This Far by Faith: A new African-American hymnal and worship resource
by Horace Clarence Boyer

Resources: Pentecost Prayer
by John Paarlberg

Resources: Make a Vision Statement: Basics for bringing new life to your worship visuals
by Lisa De Boer

Q&A: On the Importance of Appearance, the Catechumenate, and Appropriate Words of Greeting
by John D. Witvliet

How to...: How to...Encourage the Children in Your Congregation to Worship
by Kathy Sneller

Reviews: Book: Psalter for Christian Worship
by John C. Bush

Reviews: Book: El Himnario Presbiteriano
by Jorge Lockward

Reviews: Letters

Notes: Notes

Come and See: Signal the Sacraments: Baptism
by Dean R. Heetderks
Part Two of Two Designs for Banners to be Used When the Sacraments are Celebrated