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Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Visio Divina: Sacred Seeing to Encounter God

Just as lectio divina invites people to meditate on scripture, visio divina helps people pray with art. Visio divina, which translates as “divine seeing,” uses silence and images to help worshipers reflect and respond to God in ways other than listening to a sermon or singing praise songs.

Feature Story Feature Story | November 03, 2021

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Paul S. Ryan and Luke Enders on the Calvin 50 Song Collection

What we sing in worship shapes our vision of who God is and what God cares about. One college chose a list of 50 worship songs to help its students sustain a life of faith.

Conversation Conversation | March 22, 2018

Jon DeVries

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 Conversation | May 04, 2017

Eric Mathis

Eric Mathis on Expanding Teens’ Vision of Worship

Defining “worship” is an essential step for churches that want to start including youth in planning and leading worship. Teenagers long for worship that connects to life issues such as justice, imagination, and the arts.

Conversation Conversation | February 14, 2017

Awakening students share blessing

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 Feature Story | February 13, 2017

Psalm 65

What Makes All Ages Delight in the Psalms

The learning went both ways when two school communities decided to “dwell in the Psalms” for a year. Their Psalms-based creations revealed that the Spirit can work through kids and adults of any age to nourish faith.

Feature Story Feature Story | November 07, 2014

Kathy Hanson

Kathy Hanson on Youth Delivering Homilies

Usually teachers give the homily during daily worship at Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey. When the school asked every eighth grader to give a homily, the results surprised and blessed the whole community.

Conversation Conversation | November 07, 2014

Molding clay helps worshipers consider God as potter

More Inclusion = Deeply Meaningful Worship

The lessons learned at two seminaries that renewed their chapel worship services can make a big difference in your congregation.

Feature Story Feature Story | August 29, 2014

Sally Ann Morris

Musician Sally Ann Morris on Seminarians Learning Worship

Sally Ann Morris is the chapel musician at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She’s involved with each of Wake Div’s twice-weekly, 45-minute chapel services.

Conversation Conversation | August 29, 2014

Seminarian Ken Pettigrew studies worship

Six Tips on Teaching Worship in Seminaries

Two seminaries seek the sweet spot among worship classes and chapel services. They aim to produce ministers ready to lead worshipers in full, conscious, active participation.

Feature Story Feature Story | August 29, 2014

Kendra Buckwalter Smith

Kendra Buckwalter Smith on Authentic Global Worship

Kendra Buckwalter Smith is the worship coordinator at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PTS has chapel four days a week, and Smith meets with every person or team that plans a chapel service.

Conversation Conversation | August 29, 2014

Planning Worship With Teens

Sharon Veltema on how to plan worship with a Youth Ministry Team.

Article Article | November 20, 2013

Learning About Worship

Sharon Veltema on why understanding how and why we worship is fundamental when planning worship, especially with young people.

Article Article | October 03, 2013

The Leadership Team is Assembled – Now What?

Sharon Veltema on how to move forward once you have established a youth ministry team.

Article Article | September 10, 2013

Teens, Worship, and Faith Formation

Sharon Veltema on how worship plays a formative role in the faith development of teens.

Article Article | September 10, 2013

Erin DeYoung on Teaching Worship in Christian High School Music Classes

Erin DeYoung teaches orchestra at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, Michigan. Her students helped lead worship at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Conversation Conversation | May 01, 2013

Ben Dykhouse on a New Way of Praying

Ben Dykhouse explains why God cares about multicultural worship, and he describes a new prayer model that students learned from C. J. Kingdom-Grier, who gave a one-day workshop.

Conversation Conversation | Video Video | November 15, 2012

Ben Dykhouse on Being Uncomfortable in Multicultural Chapel Worship

Ben Dykhouse talks about unexpected outcomes and being stretched by experiencing new ways to sing and worship in chapel.

Conversation Conversation | Video Video | November 15, 2012

Reflections on planning high school chapel

Reflections on planning high school chapel by Ben Dykhouse of Ontario Christian School

Reflection Reflection | April 17, 2012

Chapel Planning and Leading: What We Are Learning from Christian Schools

This article identifies some insights about worship that influence our work with Christian schools and shares what we are learning from students and teachers through their experiences of chapel planning and leading. All the comments come directly from feedback we have collected. This collective wisdom is presented in the form of proverbs—wise sayings, or words of advice—in the hope that this will encourage learning over time and across contexts, and spark conversation and further thinking on these topics.

Article Article | March 13, 2012