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Advent |
| Issue #93 - Who Is Jesus? |
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Mary Mulder,
Dorothy Nienhuis
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For this Advent series we created dialogues where parents would speak informally with their children about who Jesus is. Each week we sang Graham Kendrick’s “Meekness and Majesty” (S...
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Advent |
| Issue #93 - Who Is Jesus? |
by
Mary Mulder,
Dorothy Nienhuis
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For this Advent series we created dialogues where parents would speak informally with their children about who Jesus is. Each week we sang Graham Kendrick’s “Meekness and Majesty” (S...
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Series for the Season |
| Issue #93 - A Universe of Promise |
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Peter Schuurman
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How far and deep does the meaning of Advent go? Christmas can easily become sentimentalized with nativity scenes or mistakenly celebrated as the beginning of an escape to heaven. Our worship planning...
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Songs for the Season |
| 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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Worship |
| Issue #93 - From Protest to Praise |
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Paul LaMaire
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Our church can be described as a singing church. As part of our worship pattern, once a year we usually hold a hymn-sing, gathering to worship God specifically through song. This year our pastor preac...
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Feature |
| Issue #93 - A Community Banner |
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Mary Winters
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The purpose of Reformed Worship is to support the creative and discerning process of worship planning and leadership. We hope that churches will adapt all the resources included in this journal, but s...
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Come and See |
| Issue #93 - Stars of Wonder |
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Dean R. Heetderks
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For Christmas last year, my daughter, a sixth-grader, was given a sturdy box filled with 365 pieces of origami paper—one for each day of the year. On the back side of each brightly colored &ldqu...
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Advent |
| Issue #89 - The Angels' Message |
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Linda DeWit Kooiman
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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...
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Reflections |
| Issue #89 - Somebody's Coming |
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Joan De Vries
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Imagine standing in the arrivals area at the airport, your heart pounding. Your beloved has been away on a long trip, and any second he or she is going to walk through those doors. In your mind you ca...
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Q&A |
| Issue #89 - Minor-Key Advent, Second Coming Sundays, and Lord's Supper During Fellowship Meals |
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John D. Witvliet
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Q We’ve had complaints of having too much of a “minor-key Advent” in our church. How would you respond? A It all depends! Advent is a time of great hope. But it is also a time to dwe...
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