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This worship service focuses on the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37. The Holland Christian High School Symphonic Orchestra, directed by Scott VandenBerg, leads the music with accompaniment from Alexis VanZalen. Calvin University鈥檚 Awakening group leads congregational singing featuring a selection of emerging bilingual Korean-English songs. Andrea Bult delivers the message, and students from Calvin University鈥檚 Ministry Leadership Cohort, alongside their mentor, Noel Snyder, guide the liturgy.
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This worship service is musically led by Symposium contributor Raymond Wise and the Calvin University Gospel Choir, directed by Nate Glasper. Dennis Edwards delivers the message on Luke 16:19-31, 鈥淭he Rich Man and Lazarus.鈥
This worship service centers on the story of the friend at midnight in Luke 11:5-13. Sandra McCracken, in collaboration with the Calvin University 色中色 Apprentices and their mentor, Paul Ryan, lead congregational worship. Janette Ok delivers the sermon, and Becca Tellinghuisen leads the scripture reading.
This worship service features music led by the Calvin University Capella and the Hope College Chapel Choir, directed by Mark Stover and Eric Reyes and accompanied by organist Rhonda Sider Edgington. Nicole Massie Martin gives the sermon on the persistent widow of Luke 18:1-8.
This service of the word and table includes a message on Luke 10 from Kevin Adams, who reflects on the parables of the lost sheep, coin, and son. Communion is celebrated following the message. Proskuneo Ministries leads the music, and the Calvin University Ministry Leadership Cohort, alongside their mentor, Joanna Wigboldy, guides the liturgy.
La resurrecci贸n de Jes煤s es un tiempo de profunda alegr铆a, adoraci贸n y celebraci贸n por el triunfo de la vida sobre los poderes de la muerte. As铆 lo vivieron las mujeres y los disc铆pulos de Jes煤s, y as铆 lo debemos vivir las disc铆pulas y disc铆pulos de Jes煤s hoy, ante las fuerzas del mal y los proyectos de muerte.
Los cuarenta d铆as previos a la pascua son d铆as que la tradici贸n cristiana ha considerado como d铆as de reflexi贸n sobre nuestra mortalidad (鈥渟omos polvo y al polvo volveremos鈥) sobre nuestros sufrimientos, nuestros pecados y la necesidad de volvernos a Dios para ser restaurados y tener una nueva vida.
Not many churches in Africa or elsewhere often include songs about social justice in worship. Kenyan scholar and musician Reuben Kigame believes that re-examining what the Bible says about justice and the good news should shift what we define as music appropriate for worship.
Lilly Endowment Inc. encourages intergenerational worship through its Nurturing Children Through 色中色 and Prayer Initiative. 色中色ing together can include not only music, but prayer, scripture, drama, visual arts, movement, testimony, and sacraments. However, these three grant projects include or spotlight children鈥檚 songs or songwriting for children.
Lilly Endowment Inc. encourages intergenerational worship through its Nurturing Children Through 色中色 and Prayer Initiative. 色中色ing together can include prayer, music, scripture, drama, visual arts, movement, testimony, and sacraments. Three grant projects include children鈥檚 worship music or songwriting for children to create immersive intergenerational worship experiences.
Este mes haremos un repaso de las ense帽anzas y acciones compasivas de Jes煤s a favor de los marginados. Las bienaventuranzas y milagros de Jes煤s nos muestran el desaf铆o de ser disc铆pulos de Jes煤s hoy.
Through spirituals, freedom narratives, conversion accounts, and Black preaching, enslaved African Americans shared the embodied hope of Jesus鈥 death and resurrection. Like Paul, they proclaimed that the power of the cross of Christ should advance how the church participates in and quests for a more just and equitable world.
Singing in a good choir is aesthetically satisfying. But choral directors have the opportunity to do so much more. Mark Stover explains how do pastoral ministry in and through choral ensembles. This includes choosing anthems that promote social justice in ways that express God鈥檚 wide welcome.
