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Reconciling with the Church through Worship

Posted: April 10, 2015

Like many, I am a Christian both in spite of the church and because of the church. I would like to suggest that there are eight ways that congregations can cultivate worship practices that embrace those who bear scars inflicted by Christians.

Ash and Oil: Easter!

Posted: April 6, 2015

The resurrection is central to our faith! “If Jesus is not raised from the dead,” Paul says, “then our faith is futile.” In fact, he goes on to say, “We of all people are most to be pitied!” (1 Cor. 15:19)

Ash and Oil: April 3

Posted: April 3, 2015

At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? … With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. (Mark 15: 33,34)

Ash and Oil: April 1

Posted: April 1, 2015

For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth…But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight...

Truth and Reconciliation -- Letter to Canadian Churches

Posted: April 1, 2015

Dear churches of the Christian Reformed Church in Canada,

Ash and Oil: March 30

Posted: March 30, 2015

“O LORD, who may abide in your tent?

Who may dwell on your holy hill?

Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,

and speak the truth from their heart…”

Ash and Oil: March 27

Posted: March 27, 2015

When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.

Ash and Oil: March 25

Posted: March 25, 2015

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city.