What is church, worship, the Divine Service, and the liturgy?

What is church, worship, the Divine Service, and the liturgy?
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
I first wrote the text for this series about two years ago. When I began writing it, I was in a pit of anger and despair, so I decided to hold off on publishing it. Within the time I started writing, we learned that my husband would be losing his job (almost to the week …
Continue reading Children’s Church Part 1 – This Little Light
Now we have, in brief, dug into the history of Christian art and had the opportunity to enjoy art from around the world. So why bother to show all of these images? Why should it matter if we have a variety of art from around the world? I share them because they show how we …
Continue reading The Face of Christ: Part 5 – All Nations, Tribes, and Tongues
In the first installment of this series, we broached the idea that some people wish to destroy images of Christ for no other reason than they are perceived to be ethnically inaccurate. Such an argument is faulty at best and immoral at worst. People who make such arguments miss the main point of the art …
Continue reading The Face of Christ: Part 2 – Jesus’ Ethnicity and Message