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Closing Communion Worship: The Ascension

Closing Communion Worship on Acts 1:1-11: The Ascension at the 2018 Worship Symposium.

Video | June 19, 2019

Derek Elmi-Buursma on Communion and Context

Whether you call it Communion, Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, or something else, you may wonder how to connect this sacrament with real life. Learn how one small urban congregation creates eucharistic liturgies for living in a broken world.

Conversation | June 04, 2019

Ron Rienstra on the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

Christian traditions refer to the prayer before communion as the eucharistic prayer, the Great Thanksgiving, or the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving. If your Lord’s Suppers don’t include this prayer, then you very well may be missing out on a rich opportunity for faith formation.

Conversation | July 21, 2017

Ron Rienstra on Liturgical Performance and Improvisation

You might think of performance as totally out of place in Holy Communion. But performance and improvisation can help leaders and worshipers show and tell the gospel with their whole selves.

Conversation | July 21, 2017

Teaching Children about the Meaning of the Lord's Supper

Gathering at God's Table is a new, vividly-illustrated bilingual children's book which introduces young children to the meaning and significance of the Lord's Supper

Audio | February 22, 2017

The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving at Baptism and the Lord's Supper

In the past 40 years, many Protestant communions have recovered a robust, historically-oriented prayer of thanksgiving at celebrations of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Audio | February 14, 2017

Jane Rogers Vann on Trusting the Liturgy

Many worship leaders wear themselves out trying to make worship new, fresh, relevant and, above all, different than it was last year or even last week. Maybe they don’t need to change so much and so often.

Conversation | April 12, 2016

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.

Audio | February 29, 2016

Recordação: Uma Verdade Incompleta

Todos os anos, eu peço aos meus alunos do seminário que me digam como eles imaginam que as crianças de 8 e 9 anos de suas congregações resumiriam o ponto principal da Ceia do Senhor em uma frase-resumo. Invariavelmente, a grande, grande maioria responde "A Ceia é sobre recordar a morte de Jesus".

Article | September 23, 2015

Water, Wheat, and Honey: A Recipe for Abundant Life

In this workshop we join the surprising journey of a group of emerging adults who volunteered to help fourth graders bake bread for their first Communion.

Audio | February 23, 2015

Catherine Gunsalus González on Ancient Resources for Today’s Worship

As in the second century, people come to churches today not knowing much about Christianity. Discoveries about early church worship can help Protestants and Catholics disciple newcomers.

Conversation | November 26, 2014

Four-Fold Pattern of Worship

An explanation on four-fold worship and its place in history.

Article | September 17, 2014

Invitation to Christ: Sacramentally Centered Worshiping Communities

In worship, Christ is proclaimed to us not only in the Word that falls on our ears, but also in the “visible words” that are set before our eyes. At the font, God’s grace is washed upon our brows, and at the Lord’s Table, it is received into our hands and tasted with our mouths.

Audio | February 25, 2013

Baptism and Lord’s Supper Renewal Stories

Worship Renewal Grant recipients from diverse congregations described what they are learning about sacramental practices that nurture and strengthen faith in people of various ages and cultures.

Audio | February 22, 2013

Baptism in Art, Ritual, and Symbol

Using the resources of ancient texts, architectural remains, and visual art, this workshop aims first at uncovering baptism’s meaning for the first generations of Christians who received it and then at how that information can enrich our teaching about, preparation for, and practice of Christian baptism today.