Resources by Robert E. Webber

What We've Learned Along the Way
Reformed Churches Renewal Worship
September 5, 2005

Robert Webber has been an editorial consultant for Reformed Worship for many years and has written for RW several times. To help us start off our twentieth anniversary year, we asked him to reflect on “what we’ve learned along the way.” This article is the first in a series by a variety of writers associated with Reformed Worship since we began twenty years ago.

—ERB

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How Will the Millennials Worship?
Culture Intergenerational Worship Tradition
March 1, 2001

We asked Robert Webber, a long-time friend of Reformed Worship, to write an editorial for this issue in which we explore ways churches are dealing with the intersection of worship, culture, and evangelism. In this issue you’ll find several different approaches from a variety of denominational traditions that we hope will stimulate discussion in your worship committees, and perhaps even better, in combined meetings of worship, youth, and evangelism staff and committees in your congregations.
—ERB

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The Way of Suffering: Revisiting the stations of the cross
Good Friday Jesus Christ's Suffering Lent Stations of the Cross
December 1, 1996

This service was adapted from The Services of the Christian Year, vol. V of The Complete Library of Worship, edited by Robert Webber Used by permission of the publisher, Hendrickson Publishing, 137 Summit Street, PQ Box 3473, Peabody MA 01961-3473.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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Don't Get Hung Up On Style: A conversation
Evangelical Postmodernism Reformed Churches Tradition
March 1, 1996

Editor Emily Brink met with Robert Webber one afternoon last fall on the campus of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he has taught in the theology department for the past twenty-eight years. We spoke together in his office in the Billy Graham Center, an impressive museum and office complex.

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Bring Them In: Three models for evangelism through worship
Evangelism God's Presence Seekers Worship
March 1, 1992

There is a story in the Russian Primary Chronicle that tells how Christianity came to Russia. According to this true story Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, sent several of his followers in search of "true religion."

First they went to the Moslem Bul-gars of the Volga but returned with the report that they found "no joy" but only "a mournfulness and a great smell."

Next they went to Germany and Rome, where they found the worship more satisfactory but still lacking in power.

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Enter His Courts with Praise: a New Style of Worship is Sweeping the Church.
Contemporary Christian Music Music Praise Tradition
June 1, 1991

A new style of worship has been spreading throughout North America and other parts of the world in the last several decades. While this worship approach is described by a variety of names, the one that seems to be gaining most acceptance is "Praise and Worship" (P&W). I want to explain what this style of worship is and how it may affect traditional worship in the future.

Where Did It Originate?

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As for Me and My House: Learning from a Jewish Model of Worship
Family Judaism Sabbath Worship
June 1, 1989

A number of years ago I became a friend of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein through the Chicago area evangelical and Jewish dialogue. As our friendship developed, Rabbi Yechiel invited my colleague Morris Inch, myself, and our wives to celebrate Shabbat with them. Yechiel's lovely wife, Bonnie, greeted us with an embrace at the door, making us feel immediately at home. After a brief time of friendly conversation, the Ecksteins invited us to sit down at the table.

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