Audio & Video

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Audio & Video resources include practical and scholarly sessions intended for congregational leaders, pastors, students, teachers, scholars, musicians, artists, and all interested in worship. These resources serve as tools for preparing, planning for, and leading worship as well as for studying the history, theology, and practice of worship worldwide.

All videos are hosted on the CICW YouTube channel. Also, check out Public Worship and the Christian Life, the CICW podcast.

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Public Worship and the Christian Life

A podcast produced by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Luke A. Powery on Living the Questions of the Bible

Luke Powery encourages preachers and worshipers to embrace the space and place the church provides to ask questions as a faithful way of Christian discipleship and engaging with God.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Sarah Kathleen Johnson and Andrew Wymer on Worship and Power

Sarah Kathleen Johnson and Andrew Wymer, two Free Church scholars in worship and liturgical studies, break new ground in “Worship and Power”, a book edited with other scholars in this tradition, and celebrate what these insights offer for ecumenical conversation and learning around liturgical authority.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Ron Man on Biblical Foundations of Worship

For more than 25 years, Ron Man has been teaching on the biblical foundations of worship. He gathers up that learning in his book “Let Us Draw Near”, a testimony to the power of scripture to guide pastors and worshipers in our calling to be worshipers of God.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Paul Louis Metzger on Setting the Spiritual Clock

Paul Louis Metzger shares about the formative nature of the church calendar, which emphasizes that Christ in the fullness of time is what shapes us and how we inhabit time.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Lisa Allen-McLaurin on the OneWord Worship Model

Lisa Allen offers an approach to worship planning that centers on the transformative power of holistic biblical worship.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Kevin J. Adams on the Gospel in a Handshake

Kevin Adams explores the beautiful gifts of framing words for worship—the “conversation of worship”—that are lifegiving and engaging.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Sarah Travis on Unsettling Worship

Sarah Travis explores how Christian worship, through its rhythm of Gathering, Word, Table, and Sending, both unsettles us and equips us to do the work of conciliation and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Until Justice and Peace Embrace: A Service of Lessons and Carols

In a world filled with violence, injustice, and despair, the Advent and Christmas gospel comes, wondrously, with two strands of promise: one that touches neighborhoods racked in violence, one that is as intimate as our own interior lives, so often hidden from everyone but God. Both strands of promise are conveyed in a single common word with breathtaking scope: “Peace.”

Video Video | Worship Service Worship Service | October 30, 2023

The Colossian World Today: Opportunities for Preaching

In the 2023 Worship Symposium’s five main worship services we are looking at Colossians. In this session the five people preaching on Colossians will reflect together on how the situations facing the Colossian Christians long ago remain relevant today. Najla Kasab, Marshall E. Hatch Sr., Laura de Jong, Danny Román-Gloró, and Scott Hoezee will talk about what they observed in crafting their sermons for this year's symposium and on the larger opportunities all preachers have to bring forward Paul's words to address the many crises of our own time.

Video Video | July 21, 2023