Hospitality is defined as “the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.”
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Hospitality in Worship Leadership and Planning
Posted on Jan 10, 2023 9:00:00 AM by Julie Grindle in Hospitality, in worship
Hymns That Speak to Our Times
Posted on Jun 8, 2021 9:00:00 AM by Julie Grindle in Hymnody, in Music Ministry, in music
“Spirit, open my heart to the joy and pain of living. As you love may I love, in receiving and in giving. Spirit, open my heart.” (ACS 1043)
Read More > >The Importance of Hymns of Lament
Posted on Oct 8, 2020 9:00:00 AM by Julie Grindle in Hymnody, in Music Ministry
“Sometimes our only song is weeping, our only sound a gasping breath . . .” (ACS 1050)
This is the first line of a new hymn in All Creation Sings, the upcoming worship supplement from Augsburg Fortress, found in the subsection “Lament.” Along with other new hymns in All Creation Sings, and their siblings in Evangelical Lutheran Worship, they are powerful source material as we grieve widespread sickness and death, old inequalities and fresh injustices. Hope itself can seem lost.
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