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Aging Together in Grace

Churches can offer a countercultural message about the gifts of older adults and walking with them through the challenges of aging.

Feature Story Feature Story | August 02, 2016

Cory Willson

Cory Willson on Inhabiting the Liturgy

Maybe you feel like a bad Christian when you catch yourself thinking about work or weekday concerns during corporate worship. But doing so can help you worship more deeply and faithfully.

Conversation Conversation | March 21, 2016

Laura and Robert Keeley

Faith Formation, Cradle to Grave

Churches have a variety of faith forming activities. It can be difficult to see how they fit together to form the faith of young and older members of the congregation. Worship is one of the few activities that many churches do with all ages.

Audio Audio | March 14, 2016

Zac Hicks

The Worship Pastor: Thinking Through the Pastoral Dimensions of Worship Leading

Whether we know it or not, as worship leaders, we are pastors. The services we plan and lead have a formative effect on the worshipers with whom we gather weekly. The question is not if people are being formed by our leadership, but how.

Audio Audio | March 14, 2016

David H. Kim

Incorporating Faith and Work into the Worship Service

How do we help people connect their faith to their work in our worship services? For many Christians, bringing faith into the workplace falls into two main categories—evangelism and ethics.

Audio Audio | March 03, 2016

Olivia Stewart

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.

Audio Audio | March 02, 2016

Olivia Stewart

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.

Conversation Conversation | January 21, 2016

Olivia Stewart

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.

Video Video | January 05, 2016

Aaron Niequist

Aaron Niequist on Practicing the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

The Practice, a Sunday evening service at Willow Creek Community Church, is finding that weekly confession, communion and silence help Christians live faithfully in an interfaith world.

Conversation Conversation | November 16, 2015

Jeremy Zeyl

Jeremy Zeyl on Singing the Heidelberg Catechism

Jeremy Zeyl is an award-winning singer-songwriter and the director of worship at Talbot Street Christian Reformed Church in London, Ontario.

Conversation Conversation | July 21, 2014

Psalms Encourage Family Faith Formation

It’s easy to see why parents would want their kids to know Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd,” and Psalm 103, “Praise the Lord, my soul.” But do children also need to hear Psalm 13, “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?” or Psalm 22, “I cry out by day, but you do not answer”? Robert J. “Bob” and Laura Keeley say yes.

Feature Story Feature Story | December 12, 2013

Planning Worship With Teens

Sharon Veltema on how to plan worship with a Youth Ministry Team.

Article Article | November 20, 2013

Jeff Meyers on Signing Bibles to Promote Intergenerational Faith Formation

Pastor Jeff Meyers explains why First Union members write in Bibles presented to youth graduating from fifth grade and high school.

Conversation Conversation | October 03, 2013

Teens, Worship, and Faith Formation

Sharon Veltema on how worship plays a formative role in the faith development of teens.

Article Article | September 10, 2013

Erin DeYoung on Teaching Worship in Christian High School Music Classes

Erin DeYoung teaches orchestra at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, Michigan. Her students helped lead worship at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Conversation Conversation | May 01, 2013

Robert Nordling on Orchestras as Models of Christian Formation

In December 2012, Robert Nordling gave an extended interview. In this edited excerpt, he explains how orchestras can help Christians grow together in faith.

Conversation Conversation | Video Video | February 14, 2013

Robert Nordling on Humility and Christian Leadership

In December 2012, Robert Nordling gave an extended interview. In this edited excerpt, he talks about humility as a key to Christian leadership and formation during college.

Conversation Conversation | Video Video | February 14, 2013

Celebration of Baptism

David Rylaarsdam’s family celebrates their baptism birthdays every year with a simple liturgy and cake. He used this baptism birthday liturgy for his son Simon’s 11th baptism birthday.

Worship Service Worship Service | August 22, 2012

Leading From the Table (Book Excerpt)

Developing leadership skills that connect the congregations eucharistic practice to the life and work of the church is essential to moving toward unity throughout the church. This book is not a how-to manual on presiding techniques but a series of reflections about the way the prayer at the communion table provides a pattern for our lives.

Book Excerpt Book Excerpt | December 06, 2011

God Against Religion

God Against Religion (Book Excerpt)

A work of theology that takes worship as its basic framework, considering worship as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also a separation from God in sin.

Book Excerpt Book Excerpt | December 06, 2011