March 2011
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Song for #TomorrowSong, written 03/28/11.
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April 2009
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“Tired Of These Songs” Joel Limpic
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March 2009
12 posts
“Let Us Remember” Joel Limpic
How...
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Re-Storying (Essentials*Red)
For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt.
What is the role of a worship leader? It seems like my answer to that question has varied over the years, depending on what season you found me in. This quote from Dan Wilt in “Essentials In Worship History” struck me as I read it: “Worship...
“I pause for a moment
and think of the love and the grace that God showers on...”
– Sacred Space
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“What is there in my heart
that you should sue so fiercely for its love?
What...”
– “Lachrimae Amantis” - Geoffrey Hill
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The Art of Knowing We're Not Alone...
For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt.
This week we looked at the languages of art and music, and how they can be useful in connecting us to each other as well as to God. I’ve found that at times it’s nearly impossible to verbalize how one feels, but a melody might help capture a...
“Some dance to remember, some dance to forget…”
– “Hotel California”, The Eagles
“Is time in your life a constraint or a rhythm?”
– Robert Webber in Ancient Future Time
“To make the Easter story into something that neither startles, shocks,...”
– Dorothy Sayers
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The Interconnectedness of Baptism and Eucharist...
For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt.
In our reading for the week, this was a quote that stood out to me from James White’s book “A Brief History of Christian Worship”:
“Baptism is initiation into God’s new Kingdom of which the Church is a colony on...
February 2009
8 posts
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The Prayer Bicycle (Essentials*Red)
For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt.
As we reflect on the languages of public prayer and public reading of Scripture in our Essentials*Red class, I’ve been led to a few thoughts:
The first is how self-focused our spirituality is. Rarely will we see our faith as a living dynamic...
This was sung at St. Paul’s during their Ash...
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
– Priest at St. Pauls during Ash Wednesday
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“(In response to David’s question in Psalm 79:5, “How long, O Lord? ...”
– D. Maddalena
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Lent Prayer
I read this prayer from Walter Brueggemann’s book of prayers “Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth” yesterday:
“Loss is indeed our gain”
The pushing and the shoving of the world is endless. We are pushed and shoved. And we do our fair share of pushing and shoving in our great anxiety. And in the middle of that you have set down your beloved suffering son who was...
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Thoughts On Creating Cathedrals Of Time...
For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt.
Time. What a strange creation that every human is plagued by! Similar to gravity, we are born under its spell that is only to be broken upon death. How do we even deal with it? What a gift, and what a curse… We hear statements...
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