Category: Lutheran Worship
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"Living Sacrifice" Is An Oxymoron
Romans 12:1-2: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as…
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Worship Does God's Story
(from the August 2011 Mountain Mover Newsletter at Faith Lutheran Church) Every time the church gathers together for worship it…
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Downward Denominational Trends
An interesting article from The Christian Century regarding worship attendance trends in mainline denominations. Entry into this emerging, postmodern world…
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Greater Than Putting Flowers on a Grave
From the Ekklesia Project: And while a decoration of a grave may dwell on our loss, All Saints’ Day sharpens…
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Reformation Day Resources
Reformation Day is October 25. Here is an order of worship from Reformed Worship that contains a lot of Reformation-era…
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Contemporary Worship = Higher Attendance?
Article from The Lutheran Staff Blog: Almost two-thirds -64 percent- of congregations that switched to contemporary worship in the last…
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Worship – All Things Alternative
This weekend I taught a workshop for the Fall Leadership Summit of the TX-LA Gulf Coast Synod of the ELCA.…
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Worship as Counter-cultural
From the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture… 4.1. Jesus Christ came to transform all people and all cultures, and…
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Young Lutheran Musicians Learn the Music of the Global Church
ELCA News Release: In an effort to incorporate music from around the world into a singing assembly, the Evangelical Lutheran…
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