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Solid Resources for Lively Preaching

Preachers know that unless they receive fresh input from good resources, sooner or later their weekly output in the sermon will get thinner and thinner. But where are the solid resources on which the preacher can rely? What best practices exist to enrich preaching?

Video | April 01, 2016

Praying for Shalom in the Psalms

Isaiah is famous for his prophecies of shalom—a coming time in which God would make right all that is wrong with the world. All of creation would be fruitful and benign. All humans would be knit together in brotherhood and sisterhood. All creation and all humans would delight in God. In short, God and creation would once again be webbed together in justice, harmony, and delight. The Psalmists, too, pray for shalom. This workshop will discuss these prayers. How do psalmists pray for shalom and how are their prayers important for our own worship?

Audio | March 04, 2014

Proclamation in the Psalms for Christian Worship

This workshop will explore trenchant proclamations in the psalms and suggest uses of these proclamations in Christian worship.

Audio | Video | February 18, 2014

Everlasting to Everlasting

A Cantata for Congregation based on the Hallel Psalms, composed by Greg Scheer

Video | February 18, 2014

Complementary Prayers: Prayers to Accompany the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the new hymnal Lift Up Your Hearts

This workshop will display and discuss prayers that have been composed to complement psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs in Lift Up Your Hearts.

Audio | February 17, 2014

Complementary Prayers for Lift Up Your Hearts

Prayers to Accompany the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Lift Up Your Hearts.

Article | September 18, 2013

Day of Learning June 19, 2013

A Day of Learning brings together grant recipients and community members to discuss, share, and worship together as well as to consider how disciplined creativity, theological integrity, and healthy leadership practices work together in the worship renewal process.

Article | Audio | June 28, 2013

Happy Birthday, Heidelberg!

2013 marks the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism. We will explore the unique qualities of this beautiful Reformed expression of the Christian faith and introduce new tools by which the Heidelberg Catechism can continue as a vital tool for faith formation in the church today.

Audio | February 22, 2013

The Sermon on the Mount: Preaching, Teaching and Living in Righteousness

Kenneth E. Bailey and Christine Pohl will help participants to understand themes from the Sermon and to consider their power and beauty for preaching, teaching, and life in Christian community. Hosted by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Video | February 18, 2013

Neal Plantinga on His “God Go Before You” Blessing

Cornelius “Neal” Plantinga Jr, president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary, often gives a specific benediction that blesses worshipers.

Audio | Conversation | Musical Composition | August 22, 2011

In Other Words: A Conversation on Preaching

Sermons usually say in other words what Scripture says, and do in other words what Scripture does --assure, warn, encourage, inform, inspire--. But they say and do Scripture in a great many ways and they can sound very different from each other depending on the acoustics of time, place, and audience.

Audio | March 23, 2010

Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching

This workshop audio will help participants begin to explore the possibilities and homiletical impact of engaging in an ongoing, vigorous program of reading for preaching.

Audio | January 01, 2008

Interview with Dallas Willard

This presentation was a lively conversation between Dallas Willard, professor at the University of Southern California, and Neal Plantinga, president of Calvin Theological Seminary.