|
|
|
Christmas |
| Issue #93 - Telling God’s Story |
by
Carmen Smits
|
This children’s Christmas program, which incorporates questions and answers from the Heidelberg Catechism, follows the well-known structure of “sin, salvation, and service.” It is a...
|
| |
Epiphany |
| Issue #93 - Star of Wonder |
by
Karen Bruinsma
|
Prelude “We Three Kings/Bell Carol,” arr. Foncannon “Songs of the Season,” arr. Keveren Welcome Epiphany Prayer Eternal God, you have made yourself known to people of all...
|
| |
Reflections |
| Issue #93 - Big News from Little Children |
by
Tracy Young
|
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw hi...
|
| |
Editorial |
| Issue #92 - "That's My Blessing" |
by
Joyce Borger
|
Sometimes my three-year-old daughter wants to join me for worship instead of attending her Sunday school class. On one such Sunday, I ran down the litany of things she would not be allowed to do duri...
|
| |
Feature |
| Issue #92 - Table Fellowship |
by
Stanley Mast
|
For the last fifteen years LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church has welcomed children to the Lord’s table by means of a Table Fellowship liturgy. We want to encourage our children to walk b...
|
| |
Feature |
| Issue #92 - Stones from the River |
by
Laura Keeley
|
“In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up...
|
| |
Lord's Supper |
| Issue #91 - A New Order of Christian Nurture |
by
Michael F. Abma
|
The unfortunate history of the Lord’s Supper is that we have always managed to find a way to fight over the very thing that was meant to bring us together. So what are we disagreeing about this...
|
| |
Advent |
| Issue #89 - The Angels' Message |
by
Linda DeWit Kooiman
|
During Advent we wanted to draw all the generations in our congregation into the wonderful messages of hope, love, peace, and joy. To do that, we wrote dramatic scripts to reflect God’s command...
|
| |
Advent |
| Issue #89 - Kids Creating Art for Worship |
by
Trish Turkstra
|
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” Christ Community Church takes this quote by cultural critic Neil Postman seriously. According to the church’s vision st...
|
| |
Faith Formation |
| Issue #88 - Praying for Illumination at Church and at Home |
by
Robert J. and Laura Keeley
|
This is the fourth in a series of articles with suggestions for how to be deliberate about encouraging faith nurture in your congregation’s worship. Prayer is an essential part of our Christian...
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
Fan on Facebook
