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1995 Colam Program Book, Colam Committee

Conferences on Liturgy and Music

The program book for the 1995 Conference on Liturgy and Music (COLAM), including practical information, session descriptions, a schedule, and worship service outlines.

A Brief History Of Colam, Howard Slenk

Conferences on Liturgy and Music

A brief history of the Conference on Liturgy and Music (COLAM), especially its beginnings and the first conference in 1979.

Reformed Worship (Rw) 36 - Children In Worship (June 1995), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Kids in Worship by Jessie Schut....2

Worship Is...by Cecilia Mereness....6

Both Seen and Heard by Robert C. De Vries....9

Kids of the Kingdom by Howard D. Vanderwell....11

Cultivating Faith by Leonard J. Vander Zee....18

Standing on the Lord's Side by Helen Walter....21

"Will All the Children Please Come Forward?" by Wilbert M. Van Dyk....24

Introducing Songs for LiFE by Emily R. Brink....26

Teaching Children the Songs of the Church by Randall Engle....32

"Babble at Babel" and More by Marlene Koster....35

"Ven Will I Zing?" by James C. Schaap....38 …

Calvin Seminary Forum: April 1995, David Feddes, David Holwerda, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., James V. Brownson

Calvin Seminary Forum (1994-2001)

Contents
1 - What's the Connection? - David Feddes
3 - Clear Teaching - David Holwerda
4 - Reply to Feddes - Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
5 - Response to John Cooper's Inclusive Language for God - James V. Brownson
6 - Response to Brownson's Response - John Cooper
8 - Preach the Catechism - Wilbert M. Van Dyk

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 30 No 1 - April 1995), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / Covenant and Creation: Covenant Overload or Covenantal Deconstruction by Craig G. Bartholomew - 11 / The Relation Between Creation and Redemption in Romans 8:18–27 by John Bolt - 34 / Augustine’s Theory of Concupiscence in City of God, Book XIV by James B. Weidenaar - 52 / Searching for “Disconnected Wires”: Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Creation Revisited by Syd Hielema - 75 / General Revelation and Science: Reflections on a Remark in Report 28 by Nicolaas H. Gootjes - 94 / The Effects of the Fall on Creational Social Structures: A Comparison of …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 35 - Ascension / Pentecost (March 1995), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: Tell Me I'm Wrong....2

One Sunday Morning, Two Worship Styles by Edith Bajema....4

All Are (Not) Welcome! by Shelley E. Cochran....10

Homing in on the Church by David Sieplinga....12

You Want Me to What? by Debra Freeberg....15

The Earth Is the Lord's by Rolf Bouma....18

Life as a Psalm to the Lord by Calvin B. DeWitt....24

Thank You, God, for Water, Soil, and Air by John D. Paarlberg....26

Music Is the Rub by John Haines....32

Your Kingdom Come by Emily R. Brink....35

Pentecost Service: The Spirit Is Among Us....42 …

Saturday Seminar Sessions, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

A handout specifically covering seminar sessions offered along with their instructors and locations. Also includes an event feedback form.

Gospel Festival Outline, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline for the Gospel Festival held during the 8th Symposium on Worship and Church Music,

Program - The Eighth Symposium On Worship And Church Music At Calvin College & Seminary, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

The Symposium on Worship and Church Music at Calvin College and Seminary aims to bring together worship leaders and planners, pastors and laypersons, artists and musicians from many church traditions for times of learning, discussion, and fellowship. This year's conference again is both ecumenical and Reformed, both principled and practical, both appreciative of a heritage and open to contemporary expression. There truly is something for everyone!

Brochure, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

A mailer for the 8th Annual Symposium on Worship, including a full event schedule, short biographies of primary presenters, and a registration form.

A Service Of Prayer And Praise: Using Hymns, Poetry, & Scripture Reading, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

A program for the hymn festival on the theme of light, held during the 8th Annual Symposium on Worship.

Calvin Seminary Forum: January 1995, Harry Boonstra, David Holwerda, Craig Van Gelder, Calvin P. Van Reken

Calvin Seminary Forum (1994-2001)

Contents
1 - You Call that CRC Worship? - Harry Boonstra
3 - How Shall We Worship? - David Holwerda
4 - Seeking the Lost Through the Seeker Service - Craig Van Gelder
6 - Worship and the Second Commandment - Calvin P. Van Reken

Hekman Library Sermon Index Archive, Hekman Library

Hekman Library Files

This is a metadata archive of the Hekman Library Sermon Index (HLSI), provided in two file formats: MSExcel and Comma Separated Values (CSV). The Sermon Index identified sermons contained in books owned by the Hekman Library, and sermons from the CRC periodical, The Living Word. The metadata includes the scripture passage, the author, a title keyword, or the subject, and the call number for books held in Hekman Library. The database includes sermons published in books from 1995 and published in The Living Word from 1990-2001. Data entry ceased in 2016. There is also an index in card catalog …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 34 - Lent / Easter (December 1994), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: Expanding Our Repertoire by Harry Boonstra....2

Genuine Sorrow...Wholehearted Joy by John D. Paarlberg....4

A Lenten Service: In the Pit...Waiting....9

A Lenten Service: From Victim to Victory by Charles H. Fondse....12

Service Planning for Lent: Are We Faking It? by Scott Hoezee....15

Easter Service: Come, Lord Jesus, Come....21

Drama: Readings from The Dramatised Bible....24

Improving Our Baptism by Tom Schwanda....25

Hymn of the Month by Randall D. Engle....28

Giving a Hymn a Lift by Jan Overduin....34

View from the Pew: For a Dime I'd Quit this Committee by James C. Schaap....38 …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 2 - November 1994), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Remembering John Kromminga by Henry Zwaanstra - 340 / Apology of John Calvin, to Messrs. the Nicodemites upon the Complaint That They Make of His Too Great Rigor (1544) translated by Eric Kayayan - 346 / Within Proper Limits: Basic Features of John Calvin's Theological Epistemology by Cornelis van der Kooi - 364 / Calvin (and Zwingli) on Divine Providence by Paul Helm - 388 / Not "Hidden and Far Off": The Bodily Aspect of Salvation and Its Implications for Understanding the Body in Calvin's Theology by Thomas J. Davis - 406 / John Calvin's Humanist Image of Popular …

Calvin Seminary Forum: October 1994, Craig Van Gelder, David Holwerda, Dirk Hart, Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

Calvin Seminary Forum (1994-2001)

Contents
1 - Are You Ready for the 21st Century? - Craig Van Gelder
3 - Tradition and Change - David Holwerda
5 - Has the Future Already Arrived? - Dirk Hart
4 - Schaller's Worldly Wisdom - Cornelius Plantinga,Jr
8 - Tertullian and "Church Growth" - Richard A. Muller

Reformed Worship (Rw) 33 - Advent / Christmas (September 1994), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: Who's the Host? by Emily R. Brink....2

A Teaching Service: Around the Church Year in an Hour by Harry Boonstra....3

Serving Planning for Advent: Looking for Life in All the Right Places by Timothy L. Brown....8

Children's Christmas Program: Preparing the Way for Jesus by Cindy Holtrop and Shirley Cooman....13

Nine Lessons and Carols: To Us a Child Is Born....18

Service Planning for Epiphany: Good News for All People by Alvin Hoksbergen....20

View from the Pew: Peppermint Christianity by Bert Witvoet....25

Hymn of the Month by Emily R. Brink....26

Does …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 32 - Ritual In Worship (June 1994), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Right Rites by Harry Boonstra....2

View from the Pew: When I Was a Lad...by Tymen E. Hofman....4

Ritual in Reformed Churches—A Guided Tour by Robert A. Meyering....6

A Return to Ritual....11

The Old Becomes New by Jerome W. Berryman....16

Body Language by Don E. Saliers....18

Weekly Communion by Bruce G. McNair with Sheldon W. Sorge....22

Marking Passages by William R. Miller....22

Service Planning: Christ the King by Daniel Meeter....26

Hymn of the Month by Merle R. Mustert....32

Reformation Hymn Festival: Reformation Voices....38

Service for World Hunger: Promise and Pain....43

Reviews: …

Calvin Seminary Forum: April 1994, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., David Holwerda, John W. Cooper, Calvin P. Van Reken

Calvin Seminary Forum (1994-2001)

Contents
1 - Ordination of Women and of Gays: Are they on Par? - Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
3 - Synods and Crisis - David Holwerda
5 - Inclusive Language for God: Its Time to Take a Stand - John Cooper
8 - A Parable of Grace - Calvin Van Reken

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 1 - April 1994), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / "Covenant" Overload in Reformed Theology by John H. Stek - 12 / The Continuing Conundrum: Calvin and the Conditionality of the Covenant by Peter A. Lillback - 42 / The Covenant of Works and the Stability of Divine Law in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodoxy: A Study in the Theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus à Brakel by Richard A. Muller - 75 / The Doctrine of the Abrogations in the Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669) by W. J. Van Asselt - 101 / The Perkinsian Moment of Federal Theology by Michael McGiffert - …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 31 - Ascension / Pentecost (March 1994), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: Worship in a Blender by Emily R. Brink....2

Pray it Write by Edith Bajema....3

When You Pray...by Thomas Pettinga....6

Evening Home Worship: Children of the Light by Cheryl Brandsen and Sharon Brueker....8

It's Greek to Me! by Phyllis Mussman....11

In with the New by Donald M. Brandt....14

Seeker Service Revisited by William Van Tol....16

Test Your Worship Planning by Duane E. VanderBrug....18

Let's End the Taste Wars by Stephen D. Lawton....20

Wednesday Afternoon Miracle by Marlene Koster....22

Hymn of the Month by Emily R. Brink....24

Occurrences at …

Unity In Christ's Fullness, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

A worship service focused on Christian unity, focused on Ephesians 3:1-13.

Program - The Seventh Calvin College Symposium On Worship And Church Music, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

The Calvin College Symposium on Worship and Church Music aims to bring together worship leaders and planners, pastors, church artists, and church musicians from many church traditions for times of learning, discussion, and fellowship. Sessions are planned both with a broad ecumenical appeal and with sensitivity to the unique challenges of worship planning and leadership of churches in the Reformed tradition. Conference offerings aim to unite the best learning and thought about worship with practical suggestions for worship planning and leadership, and–most importantly–with a high sense of our privilege and responsibility in the worship of our Lord and God.

This …

Posters For The Seventh Calvin College Symposium On Worship And Church Music, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

Posters for the 7th Calvin Symposium on Worship, including a list of lecturers and workshops offered, as well as two hymn festival.

For God Alone My Soul Waits In Silence, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline for a festival of hymns focused on the themes of waiting for God amidst the storms and challenges of life.

An Epiphany Service: A Light To The World, Calvin Symposium On Worship Planning Committee

Symposium on Worship Archive

A handout for the opening worship service of the 7th Calvin Symposium on Worship, focused on light for the season of Epiphany.

Calvin Seminary Forum: January 1994, John Bolt, David Holwerda, Roger S. Greenway, Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

Calvin Seminary Forum (1994-2001)

Contents
1 - The Right to Die - John Bolt
3 - From Dream to Forum - David Holwerda
6 - Missions is Spiritual Warfare - Roger Greenway
7 - Smedes For Preachers - Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
8 - Christ the Victor - Ronald J. Feenstra

Reformed Worship (Rw) 30 - Lent / Easter (December 1993), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

The Friday Voice of Faith by Walter Brueggemann....2

AHA! by Cele Mereness....6

Service Planning: Shareholders in God's Company by Robert De Moor and the First Langley worship team....8

Ash Wednesday Service: Ashes? Yes! by Harry Boonstra....18

View from the Pew: He's a Marked Man by James Calvin Schaap....20

Let the Words Sink In by Claudia Beversluis....22

Hymn of the Month by Joan Ringerwole....26

Washing Before Eating: Reflections and a Liturgy for Maundy Thursday by Ruth M. Hofman....31

Easter Sunrise Service: Whom Do You Seek? by Steven and Sophie Mathonnet-Vanderwell....34

Easter Drama: …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 28 No 2 - November 1993), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial: The Dutch Connection by John Bolt - 263 / A History of Theology and Spirituality in the Dutch Reformed Churches (Gereformeerde Kerken), 1892-1992 by Jan Veenhof - 266 / The Dutch Second Reformation (Nadere Reformatie) by Joel R. Beeke - 298 / The Catholic Origins and Calvinist Orientation of Dutch Reformed Church Law by John Witte, Jr. - 328 / Scripture Read and Interpreted: The Development of the Doctrine of Scripture and Hermeneutics in Gereformeerde Theology in the Netherlands by H. M. Vroom - 352 / Public Theology? A Current Dutch Discussion by David Graham Murphy - 372 …

The Use Of Lament In Pastoral Care: Exploring Its Use With Those Working Through The Loss Of A Child, Cornelius J. Deboer

CTS Master of Theology (ThM) Theses

The general purpose of the thesis is to reintroduce an ancient Jewish/Christian tradition of lamenting which taps the anger and inappropriateness of death, destruction, and injustice. This ancient tradition has been lacking and has not been readily encouraged in the Christian community, even though lamenting can easily be understood as a vital part of our relationship with a covenantal God.

More specifically the thesis describes ministry to bereaved parents, and the important place of lament in this ministry. Although the psalms of lament are set forth as the main model, other creative avenues of lamenting are explored. Some prayers and …