All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Article Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Worshipers Worship- Meaning of Dance Intergenerational Worship Music Technology Worship- Preparing for Visual Arts Language Arts/Words Worship- Leading Preaching Worship- Planning Teaching Daily Prayer/Reflection Grants Interdisciplinary Drama Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Christian Year 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 1 - 20 of 259 Sort by: Title | Date 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 Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Songwriters and Scholars You might think of scholars as looking back and contemporary Christian songwriters as looking forward. Songwriter Andrea C. Hunter says that scholars can help remind musicians and congregations of what to aim for in worship. Scholars also mine treasures from Christian traditions in many eras and places. Conversation | May 29, 2019 Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Worship Music’s Thou-to-I Shift Her wide and deep experience with contemporary worship music gives Andrea C. Hunter keen insight on how it can form—or malform—Christians and congregations. Conversation | May 29, 2019 Angie Hong on Biblical Reconciliation through the Worship Arts God calls all Christians and congregations to the ministry of reconciliation. Sometimes this happens best through the worship arts. Conversation | May 24, 2019 Angie Hong on Imagining Worship as an Egalitarian Zone Christian worship services can support or contradict the biblical vision of the church as one body with many parts. Here’s how corporate worship can help worshipers practice equity across lines of gender, race, ability, socioeconomics, and sexuality. Conversation | May 24, 2019 Jean Ngoya Kidula on African Church Musics Ethnomusicologist Jean Ngoya Kidula invites churches around the world to learn more about what she calls African church “musics” so they can glimpse how vast God is. Conversation | May 14, 2019 Jean Ngoya Kidula on Ethnomusicology and Ethnodoxology Scholar Jean Ngoya Kidula explains how ethnomusicology and ethnodoxology can widen churches’ musical palates. Accepting this opportunity will expand how congregations understand and praise God. Conversation | May 14, 2019 Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching “How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching. Conversation | April 10, 2019 W. David O. Taylor on Scholars and Songwriters Scholars and songwriters don’t normally talk together. But wonderful music for Christian worship can result when they share insights. Conversation | March 01, 2019 Constance Cherry on Competing Metaphors for Worship Most churches measure worship services against a certain ideal. They may think of worship like a concert, entertainment, dialogue, or something else. Even if they have not consciously chosen an operating metaphor for worship, their pattern greatly influences how individuals and congregations live out their faith. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Constance Cherry on Small Church Worship and Identity Small churches sometimes feel weak or irrelevant. Intentional worship practices can help them discover their value before God and to the community. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Birgitta Johnson on New African American Ecumenical Hymnal One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism is a new Protestant hymnal compiled by a core committee of worship arts ministers and scholars. It goes deep and wide into the multiple streams of black Christian music and worship. Conversation | January 07, 2019 Birgitta Johnson on Praise and Worship Music Praise and worship music can lift worshipers’ hearts to God and unite people across culture, religious tradition, and background. But the genre is not meant to be the only kind of music in a congregation’s repertoire. Conversation | January 07, 2019 Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture. Conversation | December 12, 2018 John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues. Conversation | December 04, 2018 Rosa Cándida Ramírez y Analisse Reyes comentan sobre cantar coritos Cantar coritos - cantos breves - en español e inglés en el culto ofrece hospitalidad y facilita que la congregación aprenda nuevos conceptos sobre quién es Dios. Conversation | December 04, 2018 Duane Kelderman on the Challenge of Preaching in a Fragile Europe A Dominican preaching colloquium addresses the challenge of preaching in contemporary Europe, where secularism, individualism, and a lack of cultural consensus have given rise to fear, division, and xenophobia. Conversation | November 16, 2018 Joyce Ann Zimmerman on 14 Years of Evaluating Vital Worship Grants During her 14 years on Calvin Institute of Christian Worship’s Grants Advisory Board, Joyce Ann Zimmerman evaluated 1,345 grant proposals. She describes essentials of a good grant project. Conversation | November 09, 2018 Rosa Cándida Ramírez and Analisse Reyes on Singing Coritos Singing coritos {short songs} in Spanish and English is hospitable in worship. It also opens up worshipers to new understandings of God. Conversation | October 23, 2018 Emmett G. Price III on Racial Reconciliation Resources for Congregations Learning about diversity among Christians is a good way to embrace the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to us by God. Conversation | September 25, 2018 1 2 3 ... Next »
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