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Reflections |
| Issue #84 - Divine Mediocrity |
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Jim Holwerda
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My Alaskan treasure doesn’t look like much. It is an extraordinarily ordinary rock. Over the years I have collected an assortment of rocks to commemorate vacations and hikes. Each possesses some...
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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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Feature |
| Issue #84 - Bringing the Habits Home |
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Carrie Steenwyk
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For a background on Vertical Habits see Betty Grit’s article on page 4. —JB Connecting Vertical Habits in worship to vertical habits at home and in our ev...
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Worship |
| Issue #84 - Praying Through the Psalms |
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Cindy de Jong
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At a summer planning meeting on her back porch, Laura Smit, Dean of the Chapel at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, mentioned a Psalm Festival she had done with her church in Boston—all 15...
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Reflections |
| Issue #83 - Meeting God Where We Are |
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Lisa A. Stracks
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If we’re honest with ourselves, we know we’re not always in the “right” frame of mind to plan or lead worship. Much as we might hate to admit it, outside factors do affect our...
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Feature |
| Issue #70 - Holding Fast to the Psalms: Stories from Hungary |
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Beth Lantinga
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The book of Psalms, embodied in the Genevan Psalter, has nourished Reformed Christians for centuries. This spiritual heritage has a special place in the hearts of Hungarian Reformed bel...
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Resources |
| Issue #54 - Songs for a Lifelong Journey: Service plans for Lent based on the Psalms of Ascent |
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R. Van Rathbun
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When I was young, growing up in western Michigan, our family made frequent trips to the area west of Chicago to visit grandparents and family. While in many ways the five-hour journey (...
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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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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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