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There is a crisis of worship today. The problem goes beyond matters of style—it is a crisis of content and of form. Worship in churches today is too often dead and dry, or busy and self-involved. Robert Webber attributes these problems to a loss of vision of God and of God’s narrative in past, present, and future history. As he examines worship practices of Old Testament Israel and the early...

We generally associate Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit, as if the Spirit originated on that day. Yet actually, the Holy Spirit has been present in all of history. The story of God is the story of the Triune God, and therefore always the story of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. For example, an image used by the early church fathers was that God always works in the world through his own two hands—the incarnate Word and the Holy Spirit. So the Spirit is at work, as
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