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Vertical Habits: Helping Congregations Rediscover the Striking Beauty of Conversation with God

Good relationships are built on healthy practices; the same is true for our relationship with God.

Audio | May 03, 2018

From the Inside Out: Guiding Adolescents in Worship Leadership

A discussion-based workshop to work toward establishing a framework for shaping the habits, practices, and formation of young worship leaders.

Audio | March 04, 2016

Developing Vertical Habits

Recipients of Worship Renewal Grants describe practical resources that helped people of all ages better understand why we do what we do in worship.

Audio | Video | January 27, 2012

Vertical Habits: Practical Wisdom for Teaching Worship

A panel of pastors and artists shared resources created by their congregations to teach "Vertical Habits," and described the fruit that developed in all areas of congregational life.

Audio | January 01, 2008

The Long Prayer: Offering Prayers in Public Worship

Whether pre-written, extemporaneous, or a combination, the prayer offered in worship on Sunday morning is probably the longest single prayer most people hear all week. As pastors and worship leaders, our public prayers reveal much about our habits of mind even as those prayers have a shaping influence on how the congregation prays all week. This workshop looked at the place of prayer in public worship and will offer practical suggestions for offering prayers that are theologically imaginative and pastorally sensitive.

Audio | January 01, 2008

Vertical Habits: Missional Churches at Worship

In this workshop for new and emerging, as well as established and evolving congregations, we explored how new Christians and young children learn to relate to God, and what this teaches us about our practices of weekly congregational worship. The workshop featured insights from a number of congregations involved in a new Vertical Habits program hosted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.

Audio | January 01, 2006