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| Issue #97 - World and Modern Songs of Incarnation |
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Peter Armstrong
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Discovering fresh worship music for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany can certainly be a challenge. In no other season is the pressure to sing familiar songs so evident. And yet, in this season we are s...
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| Issue #96 - Framing the Psalms for Singing |
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Emily R. Brink
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Imagine a piece of art that you would like to hang or install in your home. If it’s a painting, you’d want to frame it and then find the right spot in the right room for it, so that your...
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| Issue #95 - Songs for Ascension, Pentecost, and Justice |
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Emily R. Brink
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Psalm 68: Let God AriseClick to Listen Psalm 47 is an obvious and joyful choice for the celebration of Ascension Day, with its celebration of the victorious Christ taking the throne as the great King...
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| Issue #94 - Songs for Lent and Easter |
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Emily R. Brink
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None of these songs can be called traditional hymns. Three of them are very short—just right for inviting churches (and schools!) to introduce them to children and for repeated use by the congr...
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| Issue #93 - Songs for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany |
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James Hart Brumm
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The Advent/Christmas/Epiphany cycle is a time of newness: a new liturgical year begins with the first Sunday of Advent. A new year on the secular calendar begins before the cycle is done. And let&rsqu...
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| Issue #92 - Singing the Psalms Anew |
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Emily R. Brink
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This column is the oldest continuing column in Reformed Worship. From the first issue (RW 1, Advent 1986, then named “Hymn of the Month”), the column guidelines set a goal that “one...
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| Issue #91 - Songs for Baptisms, Professions of Faith, Weddings, and Funerals |
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Emily R. Brink
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I’ll never forget my visit to see the famous leaning tower in Pisa, Italy. I had not realized that the tower was a bell tower at the east end of the church in Pisa, a separate building with bel...
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| Issue #90 - Singing the Gospel During Lent |
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Emily R. Brink
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The Revised Common Lectionary offers a three-year plan of Scripture readings (Years A, B, and C). The Lectionary does this so that once every three years, public worship services can include readings...
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| Issue #89 - The Light of Christ in Contemporary Songs |
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Paul Ryan
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"Why are there no good Christmas songs?” one of my college students asked last December. He was frustrated in his search for contemporary songs to use in our Sunday evening worship service....
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| Issue #88 - Songs for Worldwide Communion |
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Ron Rienstra
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One of my favorite churches is the beautiful Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California. While this church has many striking and meaningful features, I especially love the majestic...
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