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Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Theoretical Exploration

This article takes a look at the theological perspectives in worship on a seminary campus

Article Article | November 05, 2010

Talk Before You Call: Questions about Worship for search committees and pastors

Vital questions to ask about worship before calling a minister.

Article Article | November 01, 2010

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Planning Ahead: Worship in September

September is a time of new beginnings. The new school year, the new church school year, and a new year of church ministries and activities are all worth remembering, celebrating, and dedicating in worship.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 21, 2010

Worship as Covenant Renewal (Bible Study)

While we cannot find either a precise order of worship or rules for the practice of worship in the Bible, we can discover much about the nature of worship by stepping into events of worship that are described in Scripture.

Article Article | October 19, 2010

The Pattern of a Worship Service (Bible Study)

We do not find that the Bible prescribes a specific liturgy for worship, we do find that our understanding of the Scriptures and the guidelines that it provides will be very helpful in discerning the pattern of worship and understanding the freedom for variation and flexibility in our worship life.

Article Article | October 19, 2010

The Uniqueness of Reformed Worship (Bible Study)

This Bible Study explores the questions: What really is worship? And what is the unique perspective that the Reformed faith can bring to our thinking about worship?

Article Article | October 19, 2010

Worship, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Forgiveness and reconciliation lie at the heart of the gospel of Jesus. For Jesus, who is our peace, puts to death hostility and enmity. Still, profound hostility is still the defining feature of life for billions of people—the hostility of gunfire and persecution, the hostility of racism and fear, the hostility of family dysfunction and church disunity.

Video Video | June 17, 2010

Connect Community Service and Corporate Worship

The people who pour their hearts into worship aren’t always the same ones who pour themselves into church-based community ministry. But there’s power in following the biblical pattern of connecting outreach and worship.

Feature Story Feature Story | May 05, 2010

Pastoral and Worship Excellence: Becoming more like Christ

A feature story exploring Pastoral and Worship excellence. David J. Wood and Paul Ryan offer a biblical framework for cultivating congregational conversations about pastoral excellence and standards for worship excellence.

Feature Story Feature Story | September 11, 2009

Getting Past the Fish: The Book of Jonah for Christian Worship

The book of Jonah is replete with themes near to the heart of Christian life, worship, and witness.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

Symposium 2008 - Thematic Worship: A Rich Feast for the People of God

Rather than attempting unity in our services through a commonality of style or form, how much richer and spiritually nourishing to use a biblical or theological theme as a unifying principle. This approach allows for the use of a rich variety of forms and styles, and gives time to focus on and respond to an aspect of God and his truth in a way that is edifying and serves a catechetical function over the long run.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

The Long Prayer: Offering Prayers in Public Worship

Whether pre-written, extemporaneous, or a combination, the prayer offered in worship on Sunday morning is probably the longest single prayer most people hear all week. As pastors and worship leaders, our public prayers reveal much about our habits of mind even as those prayers have a shaping influence on how the congregation prays all week. This workshop looked at the place of prayer in public worship and will offer practical suggestions for offering prayers that are theologically imaginative and pastorally sensitive.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

The Cultural Context of American Worship

In this presentation, religion journalist Richard Ostling analyzed trends in American faith and culture that worship leaders, pastors and ordinary worshipers need to be aware of.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Vertical Habits: Practical Wisdom for Teaching Worship

A panel of pastors and artists shared resources created by their congregations to teach "Vertical Habits," and described the fruit that developed in all areas of congregational life.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

What Hath Silicon Valley to Do with Jerusalem? Technological Innovation and Ancient Practice in Worship

Certainly advances in presentation technology provide opportunities to do new things in worship. But they can also enhance our ability to do the ancient things of worship. This session discusses integrating presentation technologies both into the worship space and the worship service.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Talking About Worship: How to Start and Sustain Faithful Conversations

This session will begin with a brief introduction to anthropological categories for talking about worship--liturgical time, space, environment, action, persons, music, language, etc. Participants will then engage in small group conversations about worship, using a process devised especially for facilitating conversations in congregations.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

How Race Works in Multiracial Churches

This workshop was given for those who want a deeper understanding of racial dynamics in today?s churches. Stories and examples from real congregations showed how race within churches is becoming complicated?and creatively reconstructed?through the post-1965 waves of immigration. Most important, we show how various good-intentioned priorities and programs work --and often don?t work-- in racially diverse churches.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Reclaiming Funerals as Christian Worship

While funerals have often been seen as family affairs or private activities, the fact is that death impacts entire communities: both the faith community and the community at large.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Worship 101: The Building Blocks of a Biblical Approach to Worship

This session explored some of the Bible's most fundamental teaching about worship, with an aim to equipping participants to teach this material in their own worshiping communities. This session is especially ideal for first-time Symposium attendees, as well as veterans who want to energize their own teaching ministries.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

The Holy Spirit and Worship

This workshop explored the biblical teaching on the central role that the Holy Spirit plays in worship. Dependence and freedom, order and spontaneity, reverent silence and joyful noise will be some of the paradoxes to explore in the framework of Scripture. Our purpose is to inform some of our present-day worship practices and enrich, challenge, and transform them for the glory of the Lord we worship.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

 

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