Reformed Worship Begins Weekly Blog
When he first learned of the movie Selma, Rev. Eric Sarwar thought the film may be about a woman by that name, given that Selma (Salma) is a popular name of girls in Pakistan, where he serves as an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan.
But he soon learned otherwise. And, after watching the movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fight for voting rights in the U.S., he began “to wonder about the driving force behind this non-violent, non-retaliate, anti-racism movement (still at work in the USA),” Sarwar writes in one of the new blog posts offered by Reformed Worship magazine.
Reformed Worship is the CRC’s quarterly journal offering practical resources for planning and leading worship in the Reformed tradition
In yet another of this recently launched series of blogs, Rev. Kevin Adams, pastor of Granite Springs CRC in Lincoln, Calif., writes about a girl whose journey, taken mostly on her own, led to her baptism.
“She started church as a high school freshman. Her parents, raised as spiritual orphans despite Jehovah’s Witness relatives, had little firsthand faith experience. So they decided their own children should make spiritual decisions for themselves,” he writes.
Besides the new blog posts, Reformed Worship has begun a monthly e-newsletter which offers “relevant and timely worship resources, including tips, links to articles, song recommendations, and more,” says Joyce Borger, Worship Ministries Director for the CRC and editor of Reformed Worship.
Through the new e-newsletter, readers will have access to additional material gleaned from past Reformed Worship issues that is relevant to the season or content for readers to re-read and think about again, says Borger.
In addition, she says, “New music, new insights from practitioners and experts, and articles on worship topics that both fit the church calendar season and go beyond it, will be offered in real time as they are discovered.”
While the vast majority of Reformed Worship’s material is available for free, material from the last two issues of Reformed Worship is password protected and only available to journal subscribers.
Subscribers, says Borger, get both the benefit of the latest issues as well as have access to a “beautifully, inspiring design which includes pictures, visual art suggestions, and notated music which does not appear online because of copyright restrictions.”
Finally, she says of the e-newsletter, “we connect you to other material around the web or resources that we think might be of interest or helpful for worship leaders including a listing of upcoming events.”
