Singing with Martin Luther and the Lutherans
This workshop is designed to explore the riches of Lutheran hymnody for those, like Professor Noll, who are not themselves Lutherans. We take a quick historical journey to note important landmarks.
March 3, 2016
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61 min listen
Children and Worship
With a new frontier of research on children's spirituality, research as well as experience is showing churches that creating a sacred space for children, where they can encounter the living God, is vital for their faith formation.
March 2, 2016
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52 min listen
Understanding Your Congregation's Unique Worship Culture
Each local congregation has its own unique history, geographical and social location, demographic makeup, and mission.
March 2, 2016
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30 min listen
Psalms From the Soul
Explore musical settings of the biblical Psalms shaped by a black gospel idiom, the power of call-and-response approaches to singing, and a deep commitment to engage the full congregation in singing as prompted by soloists or choirs.
Learning to Worship for the Life of the World
For the Life of the World is one of the most influential books ever written on the sacraments.
February 29, 2016
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51 min listen
Jennifer Ackerman on Courageous Conversations among Pastors
The Micah Groups program brings together pastors from diverse denominational, theological and ethnic contexts, all who desire to become empowered wise preachers. They seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Over time, they build enough trust to have courageous conversations about worship, preaching and justice.
February 19, 2016
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6 min read
How Ritual Training Overflows into Expressive Worship
Lay training in both formative and expressive liturgy helps Catholic adults and youth live out their identity in the universal priesthood of all faithful believers. Protestants can learn from this.
February 9, 2016
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9 min read
Dale Sieverding on Cultural Differences in Recruiting Youth
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles launched a summer camp to train young Catholics to lead in local liturgical ministries. They discovered that finding gifted youth requires different approaches in different cultures.
February 9, 2016
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4 min read
Olivia Stewart on Young Children and Worship
It sounds counter-intuitive, especially today. But it turns out that helping children learn to get quiet in their own ways is huge for helping them encounter God.
January 21, 2016
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5 min read
Reading in Worship from the Book We Love
Even Christians who profess to love the Bible sometimes zone out when scripture is read aloud in public worship. Here is help for readers, worship planners and the congregation to experience the living Word.
January 12, 2016
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10 min read
Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence on Choral Bible Reading
Assigning different voices to different phrases can be an effective way to convey meaning in public scripture reading. This is known variously as choral reading, scripted scripture and enacted scripture.
January 12, 2016
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5 min read
Children and Worship: Helping Them to Experience God
This video provides information on the Children & Worship program and why it is so effective in the spiritual development of young children.
January 5, 2016
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1 min video
