The Road to Understanding: An Easter Meditation (Luke 24:13-35)
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EASTERTIDE: The Great Fifty Days
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 18, Nr. 4 (April 2023) “Easter” is the period of eight Sundays [until Pentecost], comprising fifty days, often called as a unit “the Great Fifty Days.” For the explosive force of the resurrection of the Lord is too vast to be contained within a celebration of one day. The recovery of Easter as “the Great Fifty Days” of the year can move the church along toward
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The Road to Understanding: A Post-Easter Meditation (Luke 24:13-35)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 16, No. 4 (April 2021) INTRODUCTION How small and distant God can seem when we’re discouraged! Two of Jesus’ disciples faced that kind of disappointment and discouragement as they wearily made their way from Jerusalem to a village called Emmaus on the Sunday afternoon after their Master had undergone a horrible execution on a Roman cross, as related to us in Luke 24. THE WALK Two
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HE IS RISEN INDEED! Easter in Eastern Europe
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 4 (April 2019) In my years of teaching internationally on worship, I have had the opportunity several times to be in different parts of Eastern Europe during the Easter season (specifically Ukraine and Moldova). I was struck and moved by the intense nature of their celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is interesting that the Baptist churches (which, along with Pentecostals, are the largest
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Easter Praise!
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 3 (March 2019) Almost all of us go through life constantly suppressing the truth from our own minds that death is coming for each of us. The mortality rate is 100%! The Bible says that something is not right with the world, in fact is terribly wrong: and that is the problem of sin, and of death that comes as a result of sin.
EASTERTIDE: The Great Fifty Days
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 4 (April 2016) As Michael Farley has written, Easter is a season of celebration. Easter is a time of joyfully retelling and remembering the true story that Jesus was not defeated by death, but rose again from the grave three days later (Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20)! . . . Christianity stands or falls with the resurrection of Jesus. The Apostle Paul wrote,
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SPOKEN WORSHIP: Congregational Readings (part 2)
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 10, No. 8 (August 2015) Last month we naturally gave our first and primary focus in our study of congregational readings to “the public reading of Scripture“ (1 Timothy 4:13), and to the priority of letting “the Word of Christ dwell richly among you” (Colossians 3:16). But there are other resources as well (historical and recent) that can be drawn upon and fruitfully used in worship services.
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The Road to Understanding
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 4, Nr. 4 (May 2009)
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Easter Sunday and Every Sunday
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 2, Nr. 4 (April 2006)
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