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Preparing the Congregation for Worship — Ep 48 with Steve Brower & Joel Albright

Preparing the Congregation for Worship — Ep 48 with Steve Brower & Joel Albright

by Micah Tanis | Mar 7, 2024 | Podcast, Worship

In today’s episode, we consider the process of preparing the congregation for worship with Pastors Steve Brower & Joel Albright from First Baptist Church of St. Francis. We discuss the process of planning a worship service in selecting hymns, scripture readings,...

The Importance of Memory, Liturgy, and Illustrations

by Brett Williams | Sep 12, 2019 | Central Blog, Textual Criticism, Tradition, Worship

Leigh Ann Thompson, of CSNT (Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts) reminds us of the importance of memory and visualization in our liturgy.  Memory, Liturgy, and Illustrations in Lectionaries Both the physical worship space, the reading, and the...

Lux in Tenebris

by Brett Williams | Mar 30, 2018 | Central Blog, Devotion, Ecclesiology, Holidays, Worship

“The light shines in darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” Tonight, many liturgical and reformed churches will celebrate the medieval Tenebrae service, or service of darkness. Throughout this solemn event, candles are extinguished until only one...

Virtues, Vices, and the New Technologies

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 15, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Technology, What We're Reading, Worship

Christians have always needed an interconnected set of virtues in order to pray well. Virtues refer to character traits, but character traits can be good or bad; we refer to these, respectively, as virtues and vices. . . . [O]ur new technologies tend to promote...

Technology and the Regulative Principle

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 12, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, What We're Reading, Worship

The new technologies’ emphases upon speed, efficiency, multitasking, multimedia presentation, and the like tend to make many characteristic features of Reformed worship—for example, pastoral prayers, the singing of psalms and hymns, sermons, the celebration of the...

The Importance of Corporate Worship

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 6, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, What We're Reading, Worship

Scripture never describes angels or humans in heaven as tucked away in their own private corners offering solitary prayer, but as joining their voices together in corporate adoration to God. Hebrews refers to “thousands upon thousands of angels” and to the “church of...
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