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Find practical resources and scholarly works for congregational leaders, pastors, scholars, students, artists, and all interested in worship.
Learn about the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program, designed to foster, strengthen and sustain well-grounded worship.
Find conferences, summer seminars, and other events covering a variety of engaging topics.
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Our everlasting God “who was, and is, and is to come” is not bound by time (Revelation 1:8). God can answer prayer in an instant but often chooses to work over the course of generations. Indeed, the promised Messiah came from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through descendants like David and Mary, and even foreigners like Ruth. Still today, while Jesus has already defeated Satan and conquered death, we know that the full manifestation of God’s peaceable kingdom is yet to come.
This is a guide to Advent and Christmas worship planning resources from our website and our ministry partners' websites.
Join Calvin University choirs for their fiftieth annual lessons and carols service, which coincides with Calvin University's 150th anniversary celebrations spanning the 2025–26 academic year.
The search committee for the next Executive Director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship requests your support in identifying and selecting the institute's next leader. Please see the opportunity profile.
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Register today for this conference experience which offers opportunities to learn from guest speakers, musicians, and artists and participate in a psalm festival worship service and other times of prayer and reflection.
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Este estudio reflexiona sobre el Magníficat de María de Nazaret y su entorno humilde. Describe cómo, en un mundo dominado por figuras poderosas y célebres, Dios elige a los marginados y humildes para llevar a cabo sus propósitos. Se pone de relieve la vida sencilla y las dificultades en Nazaret, especialmente para las mujeres, quienes enfrentaban estrictas normas sociales y desigualdades desde temprana edad.
An index of service outlines from past Lessons and Carols services, performed by Calvin University ensembles.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Este estudio reflexiona sobre el Magníficat de María de Nazaret y su entorno humilde. Describe cómo, en un mundo dominado por figuras poderosas y célebres, Dios elige a los marginados y humildes para llevar a cabo sus propósitos. Se pone de relieve la vida sencilla y las dificultades en Nazaret, especialmente para las mujeres, quienes enfrentaban estrictas normas sociales y desigualdades desde temprana edad.
An index of service outlines from past Lessons and Carols services, performed by Calvin University ensembles.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
We are pleased to present 27 visual symbols that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.
