David Burke has opportunity to attend a variety of Churches. He offers two observations about worship: a lessening of time spent in prayer; and that prayers, when offered, focus on requests. Some may counter that corporate prayer is effectively ‘outsourced’ to small groups, but as helpful as that form is, it is supplemental to congregational …
March 2013 Australian Presbyterian World Mission Partnership Newsletter online edition available for download here.
Mark Peterson expresses some helpful thoughts about why singing with the church is different to group singing which takes place in other contexts, such as footy matches or concerts. Such observations are helpful, lest we stray into the area of making church gatherings more like concerts or footy matches in the hope people will sing, …
On Staff At Church is a Tumblr blog which uses gifs to illustrate emotions experienced by pastoral types during certain situations. It’s amusingly accurate in some cases. For instance: Me when anyone asks me anything about anything the week after Holy Week: and What I say when a parishioner comes up to me after a …
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