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Albert Aymer believes more churches should use creeds in worship. A feature story exploring the case for reciting creeds in worship to connect with our past and enrich our worship.
To preach about worship, what text would you preach? Where in Scripture would you look?
The Sunday after Pentecost is often called Trinity Sunday in recognition that all three persons of the Trinity have now been remembered and celebrated in the great festivals of the Christian year.
So what is the best way to organize the worship planning process? Here are a few observations, along with a model for analyzing your own congregation’s worship planning routine.
Why should we observe Trinity Sunday when it isn’t a clear event in Scripture?
My children still can’t believe that I am unable to discern the three-dimensional image in a magic-eye picture.
A service of hymns and readings for Trinity Sunday.
A colleague was asked point-blank at a workshop recently, “Have changes in worship in the last generation been good or bad?” The short answer may be yes. A longer answer was given at a day-long seminar at the Calvin Symposium on 91 2006.
A look at worship planning and some tips that make it easier.
As worshipers move from one element of the service to the next, they need help to understand what they are doing and why. Verbal transitions help them stick with the worship dialogue between God and gathered people.
How engaged are the worshipers in your congregation? Do they tend to function as observers or active participants?
This session drew upon biblical passages and confessional and liturgical texts from the Reformed tradition to demonstrate how Christian baptism is a communal, not an individual, sacrament.
