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Christmas |
| Issue #93 - Telling God’s Story |
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Carmen Smits
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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...
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Epiphany |
| Issue #93 - Star of Wonder |
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Karen Bruinsma
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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...
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Reflections |
| Issue #93 - Big News from Little Children |
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Tracy Young
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“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...
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Lord's Supper |
| Issue #91 - A New Order of Christian Nurture |
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Michael F. Abma
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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...
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Faith Formation |
| Issue #88 - Praying for Illumination at Church and at Home |
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Robert J. and Laura Keeley
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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...
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Feature |
| Issue #84 - Vertical Habits |
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Betty Grit
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When children are young, they learn words that build relationships. Some come easily: “Help!” “Why?” Parents and grandparents persistently teach them to say to others: “T...
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Thanksgiving |
| Issue #84 - Giving Thanks in the Words of Our Children |
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Pete Post
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This service centers on the theme of giving thanks for country, church, and children. Each of the three sections features a litany, meditation, and prayer that involve a number of participants from th...
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Choirs |
| Issue #66 - Helping Kids Understand Worship Through Music: Ideas and Encouragement for Those Who Lead Children's Choirs |
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Judy Britts
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Directing a children’s choir offers several opportunities to teach children what worship is and what it means to worship. As choir directors, our primary tool for teaching childre...
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Resources |
| Issue #61 - An Angel Appeared to Them: A Christmas drama for children and adults |
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Barbara Vos
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After seeing the issue of Reformed Worship featuring angels on the cover (RW 53), I wrote this program, based on the Christmas story in Luke 2, for our church school. For our p...
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Resources |
| Issue #50 - Dragon Stories: Ideas for a series for adults--and children--on the book of Revelation |
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David Koll
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In the continuing challenge to keep our evening worship fresh, our congregation recently embarked on an unusual study of the book of Revelation. This book—full of dragon stories, horsemen, a...
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