Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Resources
RSS

Resource Search Results

Search results 1 - 20 of 160

Sort by:  Relevance | Title
Church Offerings as Acts of Worship
How can worshipers understand the congregational offering as a response to Gods grace and a way to join Gods reconciling work in the world? Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Learning Worship through Book Groups
How studying a book or sermons together in a small group knits church members together in worship, fellowship, and discipleship. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Pa-Salms Joel Schoon-Tanis on Painting "Pa-Salms"
Joel Schoon-Tanis talks about his painting Pa-Salms, which he created especially for the Psalms art exhibit at the Calvin Symposium on Worship. Conversation Conversation | Feature Story Video | Video | Joan Huyser-Honig , Joel Schoon-Tanis
Creating Collaborative Art With Kids Joel Schoon-Tanis on Creating Collaborative Art with Kids
Schoon-Tanis has created many murals with kids in schools and youth homes. Here he talks about how to create collaborative art with kids. Conversation Conversation | Feature Story Video | Video | Joan Huyser-Honig , Joel Schoon-Tanis
Technology that Redeems Downtime
Does your favorite technology device, platform, or default activity help you become more like Christ and renew you for work in Gods world? Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
How Online Worship Can Build Community
You dont need to be a wealthy megachurch to welcome and serve online worshipers, but it helps to have an online usher. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Your Church’s Digital Front Door: Choosing your online presence
These church website findings may surprise you Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Multicultural Leadership in Worship: Sharing Power Among Cultures
Being a multicultural church means more than singing global songs. It means that the people who plan worship, lead worship, and make decisions come from many cultures and ethnic groups. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Multilingual Worship: How to include many languages
Learn why and how congregations are using multiple languages in the same worship servicesrather than having each cultural group worship alone in its own language. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Congregational and Ministry Studies: How any Academic Major Can Bless the Church
Calvin Colleges new Congregational and Ministry Studies department helps students explore how their gifts and interests intersect with the work of the church in serving Gods kingdom. Feature Story | Steve Huyser-Honig , Joan Huyser-Honig
The Psalm Project: Reworking Genevan psalms for a new generation
The best way to learn the Psalms is to sing them, which is why a group of Dutch musicians is mining their "Genevan Psalter" heritage to create arrangements that appeal to today's worshipers. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Vertical Habits and Mental Illness in Worship
The vertical habits framework is easy to understand and talk about. It gives people the words to bring every part of themselves--even mental illness--to God in worship. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Meeting the Holy Spirit through Preaching and the Arts
Learn how one congregation used sermons and group creativity to help all ages become alive to the Spirit and more fully celebrate Pentecost. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Theological Reflection a Key to Worship Renewal
Asking good questions helps congregations move worship forward. They move from the language of preference to the language of full, active, conscious participation in worship. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Teaching Worship in Multi-site Churches
Whether you call them multi-site or satellites, more churches are launching new campuses. Going multi-site increases needs and opportunities for lay leadership, which spurs more evangelism. Intentionally studying worship helps multi-site congregations maintain unity in diversity. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Peace that Passes Understanding: Communion and Intellectual Disability
It turns out that what helps churches include people with cognitive impairments in communion is good advice for everyone. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
How Communion Trains Us in God’s Hospitality
The more that you experience Gods grace through the sacraments and in ordinary life, the more attention youll pay to whos not at the Lords Table. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Psalms of Ascent: songs for the journey
Immersing themselves in these psalms helped worshipers view their lives as people journeying together on their way home to God. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
How Mission Partnerships Can Deepen Worship
Maybe your church always has many people plan and lead worship. But that World Communion Sunday service was special for Faith Presbyterian Church in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. It showed how their long partnership with a Presbyterian parish in Kenya is opening people to rethink stewardship, lead in worship, and share faith stories. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
Dwelling in Philippians
Find out what can happen when groups of people spend weeks immersed together in a book of the Bible. Feature Story | Joan Huyser-Honig
 
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Calvin Institute of Christian Worship 1855 Knollcrest Circle SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA (616) 526-6088 worship@calvin.edu
Unless otherwise specified, content on this website is licensed as
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0