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August 3 - 8, 2025
Preaching and Soul Care (For Preachers and Their Hearers)
In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?
Ordinary Time Resource Guide
This resource guide for Ordinary Time includes sermon ideas, worship songs and hymns, visual arts, and readings to help you plan “ordinary” worship—times in the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. The season’s liturgical color is green, symbolizing a time of growth in the Christian life. This guide also includes ideas for worship on Christ the King Sunday, Thanksgiving, and All Saints’ Day/Reformation Sunday.
Ministry in a Secular Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Andrew Root
August 3 - 8, 2025
Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants
CICW welcomes grant proposals on a wide range of Christian worship practices. The next application deadline is October 15, 2025.
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How Intra-Dynamic Preaching Helps Worshipers Encounter God
You’re probably familiar with expository and narrative sermons. Homiletics professor and author Sunggu A. Yang offers another preaching method: intra-dynamic preaching. He explains how “infusing the sacred art of preaching with the vibrant energy of the arts” can lead worshipers to unexpected moments in which God encounters and changes them.
July 29, 2025
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10 min read
Singing Bilingual Psalms from Passion Week through Ascension Day
A conversation with Tony Alonso.
July 29, 2025
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1 min video
Bibliography - Visual Arts and Worship
Annotated bibliography related to visual arts, theology and worship.
July 28, 2025
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16 min read
How Intra-Dynamic Preaching Helps Worshipers Encounter God
You’re probably familiar with expository and narrative sermons. Homiletics professor and author Sunggu A. Yang offers another preaching method: intra-dynamic preaching. He explains how “infusing the sacred art of preaching with the vibrant energy of the arts” can lead worshipers to unexpected moments in which God encounters and changes them.
July 29, 2025
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10 min read
Singing Bilingual Psalms from Passion Week through Ascension Day
A conversation with Tony Alonso.
July 29, 2025
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1 min video
Bibliography - Visual Arts and Worship
Annotated bibliography related to visual arts, theology and worship.
July 28, 2025
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16 min read
Women in the Parables: Unveiling Their Influence and Impact in Jesus’ Teachings
Explore the sometimes overlooked but vital roles women play in the parables of Jesus.
July 24, 2025
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1 min video
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