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Nine Tips to Effectively Embed Dwelling in the Word

The communal practice of Dwelling in the Word has great potential for building congregational bonds with God, each other, and neighbors. These nine tips can help your church discern God’s promised and preferred future for you as you wait for Christ to return and make all things new.

Feature Story | August 18, 2023

Children and Youth Can Dwell in the Word Too

Dwelling in the Word is a tool for helping people of all ages—even children—to read and reflect on the Bible together. Doing so helps them to see the Bible as an ongoing story in which God invites us to participate in God’s mission for the world.

Feature Story | August 18, 2023

Dwelling in the Word: Simple Practice Leads to Spirit-led Mission

Explore Dwelling in the Word, a communal way of engaging Scripture that helps people encounter God, fellow dwellers, and other neighbors. The change happens over time as people repeatedly listen to and discuss the same passage.

Feature Story | August 18, 2023

Dru Johnson on Bible Literacy, Fluency, and Engagement

Biblical scholar Dru Johnson explains how churches and even the U.S. criminal justice system might be different if more people who identify as Christian were more familiar with the whole of Scripture.

Conversation | July 07, 2023

Ken Boer on Biblevox: Memorizing Scripture through Song

For many Christians, Bible verses and passages are often easier to memorize when set to music. Worship pastor Ken Boer designed the website Biblevox to help people find word-for-word scripture songs.

Conversation | May 30, 2023

Ken Boer on Scripture Memorization Methods

Memorizing Bible verses and passages can enrich family, school, and church communities. Internalizing God’s Word, whether by music or another method, helps Christians meditate, pray, and grow closer together with God and each other.

Conversation | May 17, 2023

Resources by N.T. Wright Related to Christian Public Worship

Nicholas Thomas Wright, known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright, is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He served as research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2019, when he became a senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford.

Audio | Video | July 19, 2022

Eat This Book: What Eugene Peterson Can Still Teach Us About Loving God, the Bible, and Worship

A conversation with Winn Collier and Mary Hulst.

Conversation | December 02, 2021

Navajo Christians Build Relationships through Scripture and Culture

Window Rock Christian Reformed Church used a Vital Worship Grant project to connect with more people by engaging scripture in ways reflective of Navajo cultural practices.

Feature Story | December 01, 2021

Terry M. Wildman on First Nations Version New Testament

In the new First Nations Version of the New Testament, Terry M. Wildman translates the good news about Jesus, Creator Sets Free, into cadences and concepts that resonate with indigenous First Nations people.

Conversation | February 22, 2021

Jeff Barker on Combining Music and Public Scripture Reading

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed many churches to do online worship services, inspiring some liturgists to more creatively present Bible readings. Jeff Barker explains how to combine music with the lections or scripture passages.

Conversation | September 09, 2020

Esau McCaulley on Reading While Black

African American biblical interpretation rises from a particular context. It offers unique perspectives on God’s character and glory. Esau McCaulley explains that learning how other cultures exegete the Bible benefits the whole church.

Conversation | February 04, 2020

The Bible in Worship: Deep Engagement with Scripture in a Culture of Low Biblical Literacy

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Video | April 02, 2019

The Gospel of John in the Pulpit

This seminar explored the Gospel of John and offered cultural clues that help the gospel’s stories spring to life in new and unexpected ways.

Audio | April 23, 2018

Jon DeVries on Enacted Revelation Passages

Maybe you have been moved by the power of enacted scripture dramas at a Calvin Symposium on Worship. Now you can learn from Jon DeVries how to create them.

Conversation | May 04, 2017

Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence on Choral Bible Reading

Assigning different voices to different phrases can be an effective way to convey meaning in public scripture reading. This is known variously as choral reading, scripted scripture and enacted scripture.

Conversation | January 12, 2016