All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Book Signing Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Online Discussion Podcast Prayer Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Christian Year Daily Prayer/Reflection Dance Drama Grants Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Worship Language Arts/Words Music Preaching Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Teaching Technology Visual Arts Worshipers Worship- Leading Worship- Meaning of Worship- Planning Worship- Preparing for Occasion All Funerals Symposium Resources War Lessons and Carols Ascension Hymn Festival Advent Weddings Weekday Services Epiphany Natural Disasters Pentecost Teaching Worship Commissionings Thanksgiving Easter Christ the King Christmas Healing Services Anniversaries Taize Ordination/Installation Heidelberg Catechism Summer Passion Week Lent Dedications Search results 121 - 140 of 335 Sort by: Title | Date Storytelling and Testimony in Christian Worship Celebrating its 150th anniversary led First Baptist Church of McMinnville, Oregon, into a practice of storytelling and testimony in worship. They learned how stories cross boundaries and time and connect people with God’s big story. Feature Story | June 26, 2018 Youth Heading toward Your Church: Preparing the Path from Parachurch to Church How can churches be ready to both disciple and learn from people who come to faith in parachurch ministries? Audio | May 15, 2018 Let the Times Declare!: Socio-demographic Shifts and the Future of Young People in the North American Church What are the times proclaiming? What are the demographic shifts clamoring for our ministries? Audio | May 11, 2018 From Barriers to Belonging: The Church and People with Disabilities Led by Erik W. Carter, this session focuses on ten dimensions of belonging and their salience to the inclusion of people with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities in the full life of the church. Audio | May 10, 2018 Isaac Wardell on Bringing Work into Worship Daily work, paid and unpaid, consumes our lives, energy, and minds—even when we are in church. Here are ways to plan worship so people see themselves and their work as instruments of God. Conversation | April 18, 2018 After the Benediction: Putting Faith to Work the Other Six Days This presentation focused on the multiple avenues through which the supports and relationships available within congregation can meet real needs in the lives of people with disabilities and their families throughout the week. Audio | April 11, 2018 Growing in Intimacy with God This workshop first explored how worship leaders, musicians, and pastors can personally grow in Christ, and then it suggested ways that public worship can encourage similar maturity for all people. Audio | March 14, 2018 Beyond Stigma to Hospitality: Creating a Gracious Space for People with Mental Illness Worship and fellowship are sometimes difficult for people with mental illness because few people understand their experience and their needs in worship. Audio | March 13, 2018 The Work of the People in Racial Tension 2018 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Vesper Video | March 09, 2018 Teaching and Learning in Christian Congregations and Ministries This session featured insights from a variety of people who love to teach in ways that help people in ordinary congregations learn about worship, the arts, inclusion, and, ultimately, Jesus himself. Audio | February 28, 2018 Mental Health and the Practice of Christian Public Worship: An Exploratory Conversation Sessions related to mental health are not a common feature of many conferences on worship. Yet mental-health-related concerns affect as many as one in five people at any given time, with one of every twenty-five people living with serious mental health challenges. More than four in ten people in the United States experiences a psychological disorder in their lifetime. What we say or fail to say about these challenges in worship settings can be profoundly formative for how Christian communities respond to these challenges Audio | February 13, 2018 Worship as One: Disability in Community video Through implementing small changes, churches can become inclusive communities for people with a variety of abilities and disabilities. Video | February 07, 2018 Warren Kinghorn on Mental Health and Christian Worship It is far more common to hear about physical ailments than mental ones in congregational prayers and worship. Psychiatrist Warren Kinghorn explains why mental health issues and people with mental illness should be acknowledged in Christian worship. Conversation | February 06, 2018 Warren Kinghorn on Mental Illness and Our Deepest Identity We hear a lot about using person-first language. Yet it is still common to label people with their mental health diagnosis. Christians and churches can offer another way to describe our common human identity. Conversation | February 06, 2018 Stephanie Smith on Starting an Outdoor Church People treated as the last and the least often feel unwelcome inside churches. That is why some church plants create a worshiping community outdoors. Many of their discoveries also apply to indoor churches. Conversation | December 05, 2017 Stephanie Smith on Raising Lay Leaders from the Margins Those who experience homelessness, poverty, physical or mental illness, or addiction understand things that more privileged people may never know. Raising up peer chaplains from within this group can lead to renewal in both outdoor and building-based Christian communities. Conversation | December 05, 2017 When Helping Heals: Affirming Global Service in our Churches Providing charitable support and development assistance to people in need can and does work, but, like any important activity, we must learn how to do it well. Article | August 22, 2017 Ten Ways to be More Inclusive and Welcoming in Worship and Church Life Here are helpful suggestions for congregations who strive to include people across the full spectrum of abilities in their small group settings and beyond. Article | August 03, 2017 Sport and the Christian Life: A Kinesiologist's Call to Action Most people, young and old, interact with sport. Sport invades our families, churches, television, social media, careers and schools. Audio | June 28, 2017 Worship Resources for Creation Care We confess that God created heaven and earth and everything in it. We sing that this is our Father’s world. Yet, billions of people suffer in places where so much is no longer bright and beautiful. This worship resource guide will help your community plan services that honor our Creator, who invites us to join in caring for the whole creation. Resource Guide | June 14, 2017 « Previous 5 6 7 8 9 ... Next »