Listen to Session 2, Part 2 from the seminar, "You Are What You Sing: Faith Formation Through Congregational Song" by C. Michael Hawn, held June 16-17, 2014 at IWS.Read More
Listen to Session 2, Part 1 from the seminar, "You Are What You Sing: Faith Formation Through Congregational Song" by C. Michael Hawn, held June 16-17, 2014 at IWS.Read More
Listen to Session 1 from the seminar, "You Are What You Sing: Faith Formation Through Congregational Song" by C. Michael Hawn, held June 16-17, 2014 at IWS.Read More
Advent emphasizes what has been described by theologians as the "already, but not yet," the time between the first and second comings of Jesus, between the Kingdom unveiled and the Kingdom fulfilled. In a sense, the "already but not yet" is also the time between our own births and deaths.Read More
IWS student Marc Brown writes about the dynamics of "Great Commission" worship and "Great Commandment" worship and the interplay between God's revelation and our response.Read More
Since God has already accepted us in Christ, who lifted our humanity up into his, and by the Spirit has done everything necessary to make us acceptable to God, the spiritual life is a freedom to participate in God, not a duty. In Jesus we are born again to become fully human, to be what...Read More
As Christians we have been baptized, immersed, drenched, and soaked in Jesus in the re-creating waters of baptism and signed and rubbed in the sweet smell of the oil of the Holy Spirit. So by the two hands of God, the very hands that recovered and restored God’s original creative purpose for the world, we...Read More
Jesus is both the subject and object of the spiritual life. As subject, he has attained the spiritual life for us, that is, he alone reestablishes the unity between God and man, that unity which Adam lost. As object, we look to him to see what a human being united to God looks like. ....Read More
The incarnation is the connecting link between creation and re-creation. . . . God fully participated in our humanity. In Jesus, then, we see what a human being who participates in God looks like. . . . The spiritual life, like the incarnation, is participation in this world, this life, this place, in our day-to-day...Read More
Jesus is the one man who fulfills the vision of God for humanity and for the life of the world. He repents for all, is baptized for all, receives the Spirit for all, dies for all, is resurrected for all, and will return to establish the new heavens and new earth. Our repentance, baptism, and...Read More