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| Issue #74 - Traveling on Easter Sunday: What About Worship? |
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Jane Tiemersma Vogel
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Easter sometimes falls during spring break, when many families travel. This piece is not so much for worship planners as for families in your congregations who may be away from their ho...
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| Issue #33 - Peppermint Christianity: Firsthand experience with a Dutch tradition |
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Bert Witvoet
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The lonely peppermint has had a rough ride in recent years as critic after critic of Reformed worship practices has pointed to the eating of peppermints in church at the onset of the sermon...
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| Issue #23 - Burton Bartels's Dream Ministry |
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James Calvin Schaap
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The great idea came to Burton Bartels one dawn, several months after his mother's funeral in Iowa. He had visited her faithfully in the forty years since he'd left. At least on...
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| Issue #22 - Juxtaposition |
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James Calvin Schaap
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It's quiet in there now. There's a crack in the curtain, and when I looked inside, I saw all of those kids sitting there on the edge of their chairs, just like I thought they wou...
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| Issue #21 - Mincemeat: The worship committee finds the live nativity idea a hard one to swallow |
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James Calvin Schaap
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Members of the Worship Committee couldn't bring themselves to get really angry at Betty Simmons for providing "lunch." They had determined long ago that elaborate goodies at ev...
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| Issue #19 - Lord Have Mercy: Lakeside Church Wrestles with Raised Hands |
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James Calvin Schaap
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The council, very much on edge as they talked about it, concluded that the turmoil began when Lizzy Sibbelink visited her sister Heather up north and worshiped at Heather's church on Cutler...
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| Issue #18 - Sabbath Insomnia |
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James Calvin Schaap
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Ann-Marie really wished she hadn't noticed. Right after Pastor Barry started the morning service on Sunday, he brought up seven kids who'd gone to a retreat at Holiday Mountain, had them...
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| Issue #17 - Our Church is Cruisin' |
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James Calvin Schaap
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Pastor Kirk really knows how to pack 'em in. I mean like where does it say in the Bible that church has to be boring? People act as if somewhere in Leviticus or something it says th...
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| Issue #15 - Fellowship Cookies |
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James Calvin Schaap
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By some ancient arrangement, the entire town of Turtle Lake knew that in the event of a blizzard—October through April—First Church would always have services, no matter what the size o...
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