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2008 Worship Booklet: With Every Good Thing, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship

Symposium on Worship Archive

As we gather for the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship, we turn to the Book of Hebrews as a focal point for the worship services at this year's conference. For many in the church, Hebrews is a strange and daunting book. No one knows who wrote it or to whom it was addressed. Many people find the theology and imagery of the book to be complex and at time a little quirky. In more recent times many scholars have concluded that Hebrews is not actually a letter at all but rather an extended sermon.

This worship book contains an outline …

Morning Devotions, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Michael Card, Trygve Johnson, L.O.F.T. (Living Our Faith Together) Worship Team

Symposium on Worship Archive

A service of morning devotions with music led by Michael Card and the L.O.F.T. (Living Our Faith Together) Worship Team, and preaching on Hebrews 12:1-13 by Trygve Johnson.

Evening Worship - Approach With Boldness, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Susan Briehl, Marty Haugen

Symposium on Worship Archive

A service outline of an evening worship service from the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship. Susan Briehl preaches on Hebrews 4:14-5:10 ("Approach with Boldness") and Marty Haugen leads congregational song.

Jazz Vespers - 2008 Calvin Symposium On Worship, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship

Symposium on Worship Archive

Music in this service was written, and is being offered, by persons experienced in blues and jazz. However, we ask you not to try to define what particular piece of music is jazz and what is not jazz in this service. Our only goal is hold a fitting Vespers to end the afternoon.

We are not trying to prove any point of view. We are not saying that music from the history of the Church is no longer valid for today's worshippers. Nor are we trying to show that music derived from jazz should be recommended for present-day worship. Indeed …

Leading Congregational Singing From The Piano, John Ferguson, Cynthia Uitermarkt

Symposium on Worship Archive

A note taking outline for the session offered the 24th to the 26th, including discussion of the leadership role of the keyboard player, musical role of the keyboard player, and ways to prepare oneself each week.

Celebración Bilingüe / Bilingual Celebration, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Jorge Lockward, Gerardo Oberman

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline and recording for a Spanish/English bilingual vesper service including songs, scripture readings, and prayers

Morning Worship - Witnessing Perfection, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, John Ferguson, David Davis

Symposium on Worship Archive

A morning worship service at the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship, featuring John Ferguson leading worship and David A. Davies preaching on Hebrews 10:1-18 ("Witnessing Perfection").

Opening Worship - Yet At Present, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Scott Hoezee

Symposium on Worship Archive

An outline and recording of the opening worship service at the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship based on Hebrews 2:1-12, with a sermon by Scott Hoezee called, "Yet at Present."

Program - Calvin Symposium On Worship: Word, Music, Vision, Action

Symposium on Worship Archive

We hope that this symposium will be spiritually refreshing for all of you. One of the main goals of the Worship Symposium is to be encouraged together by what God is doing in congregations across North America and beyond, and to learn to ask helpful questions about our own worship practices that focus our attention on the deep meaning and purpose of worship. We expect that we will also learn something more about how to preach, pray, and sing with greater understanding for those in our own communities and around the world who suffer for the cause of Christ.

A Helper Of Thy Faith And Joy: Elnathan Parr As A Pastoral Teacher Of Predestination In Early Stuart England., David H. Kranendonk

CTS Master of Theology (ThM) Theses

This thesis demonstrates that Elnathan Parr‟s (1577-1622) treatment of divine predestination in his homiletical commentary on Romans and in his catechism entitled Grounds of Divinity evidences a pastoral approach in which the scholastic precision characteristic of the era does not lead to speculative aridity but serves positive spiritual purposes. Parr was neither afraid of nor obsessed by this part of the “whole counsel of God.” While his popular teaching incorporated detailed theological argumentation, including an extended examination of the supralapsarian-infralapsarian issue, his concern was to apply this doctrine through multiple types of “uses” to his spiritually diverse readership with the …

The Stromata Vol. 49, No. 1, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

1- The Prophezei and the Lectorium: The Zurich Academy Under the Leadership of Zwingli and Bullinger by Reita Yazawa

13- Getting Atonement Theory to Work: An Application of Robert Sherman’s Trinitarian 21- Theology of Atonement to Christian Spiritual Formation by Darrin Compagner

21- Exposition of Lord’s Days 20-22, Q&A’s #53-58 by Jason De Vreis

43- Elements of Biblical Exegesis in the Commentary of Peter Martyr Vermigli on the Book of Judges with an Emphasis on Allegory by Kristin E. K. Palacios

54- Fear, Female Sexuality, and the Church: A Pastoral Challenge by Amanda C. Bakale

62- God’s …

Christ's Atonement: The Hope Of Creation, Mary L. Vanden Berg

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

The rich history of research in atonement theology has focused its energy primarily on explanations of how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ leads to the forgiveness of human sin and the restoration of a right relationship between God and humanity. While the biblical text does describe the work of Jesus Christ in those terms, it also makes clear that God's people look forward with hope to the restoration of all creation. Lacking in atonement scholarship is a clear explanation of how the work of Jesus Christ might be connected to and bring about this restoration, described in …

Human Identity, Immanent Causal Relations, And The Principle Of Non-Repeatability: Thomas Aquinas On The Bodily Resurrection, Christina Van Dyke

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Can the persistence of a human being's soul at death and prior to the bodily resurrection be sufficient to guarantee that the resurrected human being is numerically identical to the human being who died? According to Thomas Aquinas, it can. Yet, given that Aquinas holds that the human being is identical to the composite of soul and body and ceases to exist at death, it's difficult to see how he can maintain this view. In this paper, I address Aquinas's response to this objection (Summa Contra Gentiles, IV.80-81). After making a crucial clarification concerning the nature of the non-repeatability principle …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 86 - Lent / Easter (December 2007), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Dust off Those Bells! by Phillip M. Hash....3

The Love of God by Mary Sytsma....6

Participating in the Passion by Scott Lammers....8

Were You There? by Alex Gondola....12

From Burdened to Blessed by Stanley J. Groothof and Curt Gesch....20

Early in the Morning by Cheri TerHaar....22

In the Fullness of Time, Part 2 by Lisa De Boer....24

Praying the Lord's Prayer During Lent by Laura and Robert Keeley....32

Liturgy: A Public Service by Karen Bokma and Mike Hogeterp....36

God's Eye Is on the Refugee by Sonya Vanderveen Feddma....38

Beautiful …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 42 No 2 - November 2007), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Preliminary Observations on an Incarnational Model of Scripture: Its Viability and Usefulness by Peter Enns - 219 / On Baking Pumpkin Pie: Kevin Vanhoozer and Yves Congar on Tradition by Hans Boersma - 237 / The Origin of the Form of Subscription in the Dutch Reformed Tradition by Donald Sinnema - 256 / Abraham Kuyper and the Reformed Natural Law and Two Kingdoms Traditions by David VanDrunen - 283 / The Great Reunion: The Meaning and Significance of the "Word of the Lord" in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 by P. H. R. van Houwelingen - 308 / Peter Martyr …

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: October 2007, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Scott Hoezee, David Holwerda, Anne Zaki

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Reflections on the Work of the Holy Spirit
3 - The Secret Agent by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
5 - The Work of the Holy Spirit A Faculty Discussion
9 - Bright Wings: The Ever-Moving Spirit by Scott E. Hoezee
11 - The Neo-Pentecostal Movement Encounters the Third Wave by David E. Holwerda
13 - It’s Not Even My Fight! by Anne Zaki

Departments
14 - Making Connections
15 - News

The Vice Of Sloth: Some Historical Reflections On Laziness, Effort, And Resistance To The Demands Of Love, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

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Reformed Worship (Rw) 85 - Advent / Christmas (September 2007), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Awesome in Glory by Douglas Porter....4

In the Fullness of Time by Lisa De Boer....8

Linking the Advent Wreath to Our Faith Stories by Laura and Robert Keeley....10

From Waiting to Fulfillment by Frederick N. Seay....19

On the Twelfth Year of Planning by Joy Engelsman....20

Mothers of Messiah by Tracy Sybesma....22

Name Above All Names by Glenda Hull and Dave Nydam....24

A Song Worth Singing by Noel Werner....26

Pulpit Politics by Corwin Smidt....33

Setting the Table by Marc Neleson....36

We Have AIDS by Kristen DeRoo VanderBerg....40

Choosing a …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 84 - Vertical Habits (June 2007), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Vertical Habits by Betty Grit....4

Bringing the Habits Home by Carrie Steenwyk....6

Help Me Out, Lord by G. Wright Doyle....7

God's Law in Worship by Calvin P. VanReken....14

Giving Thanks in the Words of Our Children by Pete Post Jr.....16

Giving Thanks Always by Denise Postma....18

Monday Morning by Wes Granberg-Michaelson....20

Gifts for Service by Mary Goslinga....24

Faking It by Bethany Keeley....26

Choosing and Using Choral Music by Carl Stam....27

The Day I Got Lost in the Music by James Calvin Schaap....28

They Just Don't Sing Like They …

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: April 2007, Lyle D. Bierma, David M. Rylaarsdam, Jeffrey A.D. Weima, John D. Witvliet

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Reflections on Children at the Lord's Supper
3 - Children at the Lord’s Supper and Reformed Theology by Lyle D. Bierma
5 - United, Separated, Re-united: The Story of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper by David M. Rylaarsdam
7 - Children at the Lord’s Supper and the Key Text of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 by Jeffrey A.D. Weima
9 - Children at the Table: Some Provisional Answers to the Practical Questions by John D. Witvliet

Departments
12 - Continuing Education
13 - News
14 - Formation for Ministry

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 42 No 1 - April 2007), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editor’s Notes - 7 / Articles: Christian Reformed History in German Mirrors by James D. Bratt - 9 / The Other Reformed: Dutch Presbyterians in Nineteenth-Century America by Richard H. Harms - 33 / Accountability or Parity: Ecumenical Principles in Tension between the CRC and RCA, 1898–1904 by James A. De Jong - 50 / From Princeton to Wheaton: The Course of Neo-Calvinism in North America by John Bolt - 65 / Harry Bultema and the Maranatha Controversy in the Christian Reformed Church by Michael G. Borgert - 90 / Singing Hymns? We’ve Never Done That Before! The CRC’s …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 83 - Ascension / Pentecost (March 2007), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Ascension Talk by Graham Redding....4

A Litany for Ascension Day by David Diephouse....14

An End and a Beginning by Paul Detterman....16

Pentecost Flame by Cheryl Thomson....18

Singing Through the Christian Year by Gail Hall....20

If You Sing It, They Will Come by John Thornburg....23

When Our World Looks Different by Anne E. Zaki....26

Hearing and Obeying God's Law by Calvin P. Van Reken....28

Three and One by Ellen Van Tongeren....33

Solidarity with Christ by Cas Wepener....36

"We Are All Here" by Richard Rienstra....38

Taking It to the Streets …

Show Us Your Glory, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Carol Bechtel

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline and video of a closing worship service with Carol Bechtel preaching on Exodus 33:12-23 and Revelation 5:1-14.

A Song Worth Singing, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Stephen Breck Reid

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline and video recording of a communion service with Stephen Breck Reid preaching on Revelation 5 and the theme of "a song worth singing."

Heavenly Harmonies For Worship Team Vocalists, Greg Scheer

Symposium on Worship Archive

Adding vocal harmonies to worship songs can sound lovely, but it is not easy to do well. In this session, worship team leaders and vocalists will learn how to create vocal harmonies for everything from two voices to full choir. Participants will sing and see each example.

Ministry Among Those Who Live With Disabilities: Disability As An Issue Of Faith And Hope, Joan Cornelison

Symposium on Worship Archive

An estimated 80% of families affected by disability do not attend church even though many wish they could. 8.1% of persons with disabilities seek pastoral care compared to only 4.0% of those without disabilities. 8 out of 10 people with and without disabilities consider their faith to be important to them; with approximately 65% saying their religious faith is very important. Churches have the unique opportunity to make a difference.

Cruciform Glory, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Cornelius Plantinga Jr, John Ferguson, Jeff Wilson, Pablo Soso, Todd Farley

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline and video recording of an evening worship service about "Cruciform Glory" with Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. preaching on Isaiah 53 and John 12:20-36. Also features John Ferguson on organ, Pablo Sosa as song leader, Jeff Wilson directing the Greenville College Concert Choir, and Todd Farley miming.

Preaching As Pastoral Care, Howard Vanderwell

Symposium on Worship Archive

The multiple aims of preaching show didatic, apologetic, formation, persuasion, evangelistic, prophetic, and pastoral. This workshop emphasizes the pastoral care portion of this.

The Use Of The Organ In "Blended" Worship, Mark Thallander

Symposium on Worship Archive

A video journey in "blended" worship from Assemblies of God, Baptist, Congregational, Foursquare, Reformed, Presbyterian and United Methodist congregations.

Creative Accompaniments To Enliven The Congregational Songs, Christina Mandang

Symposium on Worship Archive

Handout from a session about accompanying congregational song.

It is very often said that the "traditional" or "conventional" hymns are boring. One of the main reasons why the young peoples are not keen on singing the hymns is because of the accompaniment. Actually, with some basic knowledge about improvisation and using some percussion, we can enliven our accompaniment.