How many of you are employing images and issues from the banking/mortgage/stock market mess this past week in worship Sunday? What illustrations will you use? What visuals are you employing? Have you changed your sermon topic or text to speak …
A Prayer for Worship Leaders
Lord, protect me from me. What I mean Lord is that this week has been so filled with fear and cynicism, that I don’t believe anyone. I don’t believe the candidates. I don’t believe the elected leaders. I don’t believe …
Solitude
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Written on October 1st, 2008
Filed under: Articles, Formation
Tags: Articles, Formation, spiritual practice
Filed under: Articles, Formation
Tags: Articles, Formation, spiritual practice
Ruth Haley Barton just posted something for pastors and leaders. We recommend her article, titled The Discipline of Solitude: Getting away from the podium and into God’s presence.
Better Blog Days
Hey all.
I’m taking a trip to Germany October 3-18. While I’m away, our friends Jelani Greenidge and Don Johnson will be blogging here.
Jelani and Don are certifiable savants. And I trust this blog will become popular in …
Worship and Politics
At Crossroads (my home church), worship and politics just don’t mix, unless they are Kingdom politics. Period. Red and blue politics won’t find a place in worship. We don’t host voter registration, make announcements about voting issues, remind people to …
Dangerous Congregations
We’ve added a category on this blog called “Dangerous Worship.” Obviously, I ripped it from the title of Mark Labberton’s book, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice.
We’ll try to keep you posted on the …
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 …
Worship and Congregational Vocation
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Written on September 23rd, 2008
Filed under: Articles, Missional, Style of Worship
Tags: church growth, mission, visitors
Filed under: Articles, Missional, Style of Worship
Tags: church growth, mission, visitors
A newly posted article from the Alban Institute gets to the heart of a matter. If you believe weekend worship is linked to church growth and mission, has the power to attract or repel people and you dislike anything that …
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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School, mall or prison?
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Written on September 19th, 2008
Filed under: Articles, Style of Worship, Visual Arts
Tags: building, unchurched
Filed under: Articles, Style of Worship, Visual Arts
Tags: building, unchurched
I knew it! The unchurched do not prefer secular looking church buildings to sacred looking church buildings. In fact, according to a survey (and who can argue with a survey?) non church goers would prefer to attend church in …
