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 268 Sort by: Title | Date Worship that Cares for People Pastorally You may think of pastoral care mainly as personal visits to someone’s hospital room or home. But Howard Vanderwell wrote that the entire worship service has “powerful potential for caring for worshipers’ needs.” His book Caring Worship: Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy explains how. Feature Story | February 13, 2019 Four Types of Advent and Christmas Eve Services: Which Have You Tried? Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts. Feature Story | November 15, 2018 Multicultural Congregations Meet for Combined Worship Services Three church groups started out as separate congregations sharing one building. Now regularly-scheduled joint worship helps them see themselves as members of one body in Christ. Feature Story | July 06, 2018 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 What Inside Songwriters Can Teach Outside Churches about Worship A songwriting class in a North Carolina prison taught eight women to write biblical songs that touch congregations inside and outside prison walls. Feature Story | February 14, 2018 Round Two: Ordination Best Practices for Ministers, Elders, and Deacons Our first roundup of ordination resources was so popular that we have now consulted five more experts from five more denominations. Their best practices will help you dig beneath the surface when you ordain or install ministers, elders, and deacons. Feature Story | November 21, 2017 How Worship Change Happened at American Lutheran Church This once-aging, now-thriving Lutheran congregation became more comfortable with worship changes by using visuals and stories, reading books together, and sharing over meals. Feature Story | August 18, 2017 First Steps for Including Teens in Planning and Leading Worship Integrating youth leadership throughout the church is a new paradigm. But churches are reaping the benefits of mentoring youth to plan and lead worship. Feature Story | February 13, 2017 Why Youth Need to Be Leading Worship Regularly NOW When congregations empower teenagers to use their gifts in meaningful ways over time, teens are more likely to imagine themselves as faithful disciples and devoted worshipers for decades to come. Two summer programs in worship, theology, and the arts inspire teens and mentors. Feature Story | February 09, 2017 Ordination Best Practices for Ministers, Elders and Deacons Because so many people search our website for ordination resources, we consulted five experts from five denominations. Their best practices will help you dig beneath the surface when you ordain or install ministers, elders and deacons. Feature Story | February 07, 2017 Our 95 Theses: Hispanic Perspectives on the Protestant Reformation After beginning in Wittenberg, the Protestant Reformation surged among marginalized and exiled people. A new book by Latino and Latina Protestants, Catholics and Pentecostals explores that legacy. Feature Story | November 30, 2016 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 | August 02, 2016 Worship that Calls Us to Reflect God’s Heart for Justice Bethany Hanke Hoang and Kristen Deede Johnson co-wrote The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance. They explain how weekly worship helps congregations keep working with, and waiting on, God to make all things new. Feature Story | July 12, 2016 What You Can Learn from Visiting Churches College and seminary professors offer church observation guides for their students. You can use their insights to learn more when you visit other churches. This process can also help you understand how people experience liturgical practices in your own congregation. Feature Story | April 13, 2016 Best Resources for Teaching Worship Seven college and seminary professors list their top short reads for teaching worship and say which resources would be most helpful for church worship and liturgy committees. Feature Story | April 13, 2016 How Ritual Training Overflows into Expressive Worship Lay training in both formative and expressive liturgy helps Catholic adults and youth live out their identity in the universal priesthood of all faithful believers. Protestants can learn from this. Feature Story | February 09, 2016 Reading in Worship from the Book We Love Even Christians who profess to love the Bible sometimes zone out when scripture is read aloud in public worship. Here is help for readers, worship planners and the congregation to experience the living Word. Feature Story | January 12, 2016 Seven Models: Collaborative Visual Arts Projects for Worship Linda Witte Henke describes seven ways for artists and teams to work together in designing visual arts used in worship. Feature Story | December 08, 2015 Nonverbal Worship Practices that Bridge Differences Rhythm, liturgical movement and visual art draw on gifts already present in how God made us and what the universal church has already created. Feature Story | October 09, 2015 Four Essentials for Multicultural Worship Churches can become more multicultural through traditioned innovation based on prayer, intention, hospitality and discomfort. Feature Story | October 09, 2015 1 2 3 ... Next »
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