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Editorial |
| Issue #74 - Where Have All the Psalms Gone? Reclaiming Our First Love |
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Emily R. Brink
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It happened again this past Sunday. A great worship service, including baptism. Wonderful singing—of hymns. No psalms, not one. This is a church that stands in the Reformed tradition kn...
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Resources |
| Issue #65 - Advent Through the Psalms: An alternative to the traditional lessons and carols |
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Joyce Borger
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I have often been struck by how different psalms fit different parts of the entire church year. For this Advent service I related specific psalms to the season of Advent in the traditio...
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Notes from the LOFT |
| Issue #60 - Singing, Saying, Preaching, Praying: Using the Psalms in contemporary worship |
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Ron Rienstra
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When I began working at the LOFT, the worship staff at the college agreed on a worthy goal: to embrace with both arms, and to lift up with both hands, the practice of singing the Psalms...
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What's on the Web |
| Issue #59 - MIDI Melodies and Cyber Psalms: Two Sites that Include Thousands of Worship Songs |
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Ron Rienstra
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Listening to music on the Internet has become commonplace. These days, lots of folks are using Napster to download MP3 files from rock bands like Limp Bizkit. But others are logging on with a more dev...
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Resources |
| Issue #52 - Come, let us worship and bow down': service plans for a four-week series based entirely on the psalms |
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Laura A. Smit
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In crafting a series that explores the richness of the Psalter for the life of prayer, I considered two approaches. The first was to spend one week on each of the main types of prayer in the psalms&md...
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Perspectives |
| Issue #44 - A Time to Weep: Liturgical lament in times of crisis |
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John D. Witvliet
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John D. Witvliet has been appointed assistant professor of worship and music at Calvin College and adjunct professor of worship at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan....
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Resources |
| Issue #34 - In the Pit...Waiting: A service based on Psalm 40 |
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LeRoy G. Christoffels
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My Song of Deliverance The Gathering of the People for Worship Organ Prelude "Invocation in A Minor" [Guilmant] "Air" [Handel] In...
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Editorial |
| Issue #30 - The Friday Voice of Faith: A serious theology of the cross requires a serious practice of the lament psalms |
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Walter Brueggemann
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In spite of their poignancy and availability, the lament psalms are not much used. If you look in the back of the hymnals of most major Protestant denominations, you will find perhaps Psal...
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Perspectives |
| Issue #11 - Straight from Scripture |
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David T. Koyzis
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In RW 10 Koyzis gave a brief historical overview of psalm-singing and offered suggestions for using the psalms in worship. In this second article, he compares ways of singing the psalms...
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Perspectives |
| Issue #10 - Restoring Psalms to Worship |
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David T. Koyzis
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Although Psalm-singing has long been one of the identifying characteristics of the Reformed tradition, the singing of psalms in worship is by no means a Reformed innovation. We share th...
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