Today’s post is written by Jeff Olson, Pastor of Worship Arts at Christ Church in East Greenwich, RI, where he has served for over six years.
In Advent a strong theme of waiting exists, but here is why you should …
Church History
Reorient and Engage: More Like Worshippers, Less Like Critics
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Written on November 30th, 2012
Filed under: Arts, Church History, Church Year, Culture, Formation, Leadership, Music, Style of Worship, Visual Arts
Filed under: Arts, Church History, Church Year, Culture, Formation, Leadership, Music, Style of Worship, Visual Arts
Our Churches: Community Covenant Church – Lenexa, Kansas
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Written on November 6th, 2012
Filed under: Better Together, Church History, Intergenerational, Local Church, Missional, Our Churches, Vocation and Call
Filed under: Better Together, Church History, Intergenerational, Local Church, Missional, Our Churches, Vocation and Call
We continue our series of posts here on the Worship Connect blog profiling individual Covenant churches. Our purpose is to celebrate God’s work in and through us, to demonstrate the diversity of approaches to worship in the ECC, and to …
Paschal Greeting
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Written on April 8th, 2012
Filed under: Better Together, Church History, Church Year, Holy Week, Liturgy, Writing and blogging
Filed under: Better Together, Church History, Church Year, Holy Week, Liturgy, Writing and blogging
Today’s post is written by Matt Nightingale, Director of Worship Ministries at Redeemer Covenant Church in Tulsa, OK.
It’s my turn to write the Better Together blog post. I didn’t get to it on Friday because I was neck-deep in …
Remembering Who Our Friends Are (Unsung Song Themes)
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Written on June 16th, 2009
Filed under: Bible, Church History, Core Values, Culture, Formation, Liturgy, Local Church, Missional, Music, Songwriting, Style of Worship, Uncategorized, Writing and blogging
Filed under: Bible, Church History, Core Values, Culture, Formation, Liturgy, Local Church, Missional, Music, Songwriting, Style of Worship, Uncategorized, Writing and blogging
Here’s a harder one. But it’s a question that’s been haunting me:
What are some of the important, but relatively distinctive, theological ideas that form the core of who we are as a Covenant church? And how, if at all,
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John and Charles Wesley
March 3, the Church recognizes and remembers the work of John and Charles Wesley.
I first encountered Charles Wesley while delivering newspapers when I was 12. It was a cold winter morning, still dark. I was out, alone, crunching …
The Great Emergence
Eugene Cho interviewed Phyllis Tickle at Midwinter Conference. What do you think? Are we in the ‘Great Emergence?’ Are you glad? Or sad? Why so?
You can order Phyllis’ entire Midwinter talk.
interview with Phyllis Tickle from Eugene Cho…
More on The Turn
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Written on September 25th, 2008
Filed under: Church History, Church Year, Culture, Style of Worship
Tags: Church History, Culture, Liturgy
Filed under: Church History, Church Year, Culture, Style of Worship
Tags: Church History, Culture, Liturgy
This morning, Scot McKnight suggests we respond to the liturgical turn among low church evangelicals, and he offers some particulars in his third post on this topic.
Scot thinks, as do I, that this trend is not an invitation …
Liturgical Turn?
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Written on September 22nd, 2008
Filed under: Church History, Church Year, Liturgy, Style of Worship, Theology
Tags: Liturgy
Filed under: Church History, Church Year, Liturgy, Style of Worship, Theology
Tags: Liturgy
Are churches becoming more liturgical? Check out these reports.
Today, Scot McKnight is talking about college students converting from evangelicalism to other traditions. He asks:
What is going on? There is a rise, a burgeoning rise, of young college
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