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| Issue #95 - Bilingual Ministry: A Foretaste of Heaven |
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Mary Werkhoven
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The atmosphere was electric. Worshipers came in, greeted each other with friendly chatter, and found seats as close to the front as they could. It was obvious even before the service began that this w...
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| Issue #92 - Learning Worship Together |
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Joan Huyser-Honig
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The sermon ends and the organist launches into the “sermon hymn.” In many congregations this is where the service begins winding down. But at Eliot Presbyterian Church in Lowell, Massachu...
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| Issue #90 - Celebrating the Arts |
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Nathan Bierma
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For a mid-sized city with a thriving downtown arts scene, the annual Celebration of the Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, may seem like just one more art show on a busy cultural calendar. But art lovers...
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| Issue #89 - A Work in Progress |
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Allison Graff
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Scan the crowd at one of Madison Square Church’s well-attended Sunday services and you’ll see something rare: a group whose demographics actually looks like its diversely-peopled promotion...
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| Issue #87 - Wondering About Grace |
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Kevin Adams
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It was his first church service since World War II. Two weeks earlier Danny had buried his wife of fifty years. The family had searched the Internet for a church that might host her memorial service,...
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| Issue #86 - Beyond the Picket Fences |
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Allison Graff
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You may be wondering why we chose to profile Mars Hill Bible Church, since usually we profile churches within the Reformed tradition. Mars Hill, led by Rob Bell, has a national reputation for being a...
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| Issue #84 - A Cosmopolitan Potpourri |
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Kent Hendricks
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Each Sunday, more than a thousand people of varied ethnicities and languages come from all over metro Manila, the Philippines, to worship in the presence of God’s people at the Union Church of M...
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| Issue #83 - Grace in the Artistic Heart of a City |
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Sarah Potter Johnson
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The hundred-year-old church building where Grace Central Presbyterian (PCA) Church worships sits in the heart of the Short North arts district of Columbus, Ohio. It’s a neighborhood known for it...
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| Issue #82 - Shaping Vertical Habits |
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Nathan Bierma
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Even here, people come for a church service,” says Pastor Rob Knol, standing at the back of the gym of the Boys and Girls Club in Valparaiso, Indiana, where Daybreak Community Church has just co...
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| Issue #81 - In the Heart of the Valley |
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Kathryn Ritsema
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Nestled in the heart of Central Valley California is a church that daily exemplifies community and growth. First CRC in Visalia, currently pastored by Rev. George Vink, is a vibrant and active congreg...
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