What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan
Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.
February 23, 2015
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57 min listen
Worship, Beauty, Justice, and Shalom
In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.
February 20, 2015
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62 min listen
Worship in Calvin’s Geneva: Challenges and Opportunities Then and Now
Based on her forthcoming edited volume of primary sources on worship in Calvin’s Geneva, Karin Maag outlines what happened in Geneva as the city moved from Catholicism to Protestantism.
February 20, 2015
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61 min listen
The Most Important Word in Preaching
Since the inception of the New Homiletic in the 1970s, preachers have been experimenting with inductive and narrative forms of preaching, thanks to the likes of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry. The idea is for sermons to engage people, create an experience of the biblical text.
February 20, 2015
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61 min listen
Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
February 20, 2015
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64 min listen
If You Want Justice, Work for Beauty
Really? In the face of so much global need, the arts are a necessity?
February 18, 2015
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5 min read
Our worship is connected to miracles rather than to incarnation
Jorge Navarro found Christ amid the difficult life he had chosen to follow. Drugs of all kinds were his daily bread, until one day everything changed. The force that had fueled his down-slide was the same force that fueled his desire to passionately serve the one who called him.
February 11, 2015
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16 min read
Pablo Jiménez on Reenergizing Preaching
One way to keep sermons fresh is to ditch the deductive form, in which preachers begin with their main point and then work to prove it.
January 8, 2015
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2 min read
Jerry Sittser on Growing through Adversity and Spiritual Practices
You probably gather for worship with both lifelong worshipers and those new to the Bible. Jerry Sittser mines the history of Christian spirituality for nuggets that give life to all levels of worshipers.
January 6, 2015
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2 min read
If They Don't Change After Worship, Then They Just Came To Do Cardio
From his native Guatemala, Pastor Jorge Fuentes came and established himself in the United States. For 18 years, he has been the pastor at the Church of Christ Elim Central in Los Angeles, a numerous and prosperous congregation in Southern California.
December 22, 2014
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16 min read
La bienvenida al simposio sobre la adoración
En nombre de todo el personal del Instituto, quiero extenderles una cordial invitación a participar en nuestro próximo Simposio de Adoración.
December 18, 2014
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1 min video
Steve Prince on Visual Art and Justice
Jesus calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves. What does that mean for conversations about injustices, including racism, both in the U.S. and around the world. Steve Prince creates visual art that can help us start talking.
December 12, 2014
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2 min read
