Stanley R. Mast is minister of preaching at La Grave Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Articles by this author:
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Table Fellowship
A Liturgy for Welcoming ChildrenBy Stanley MastFor the last fifteen years LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church has welcomed children to the Lord’s table by means of a Table Fellowship liturgy.
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Why Are They Singing? A hymn festival celebrating Covenant history
Each year near the end of October the congregation at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church gathers for an evening hymn festival. Last year the festival was called “Songs of the Covenant,” a service focusing on various biblical characters with whom God kept covenant. While the hymns and anthems were central to the festival, the pastor’s brief meditation entitled “Why Are They Singing?” set the tone and explained the theme for the entire service.
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Via Dolorosa--the way of sorrows: a series for Lent and Easter tracing Jesus' journey to the cross
By Stanley MastIn this series prepared for the 1997 Lenten season at La Grave Avenue CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan, John Steigenga (the copastor who preached two of the sermons in the series) and I decided to trace Jesus’ journey to the cross using the famous idea of the Via Dolorosa. Traditionally, those words have referred to the last hours of Jesus’ life, particularly to the fourteen stations of the cross traced out on the streets of Jerusalem and enshrined in Catholic churches.
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