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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

Deborah Sokolove on Sanctifying Art

Artist, writer and teacher Deborah Sokolove explains why humans need art as much as they need food, water or air.

Conversation | May 26, 2016

Combining Two Worship Services Renews Congregation

Lombard Christian Reformed Church in metro Chicago used to have both a traditional service and a contemporary service. Now everyone attends a single, Sunday-morning service. It’s not blended worship. Instead, the worship renewal results from slowly and yet actively responding to the Holy Spirit.

Feature Story | August 04, 2014

Green Congregations Celebrate God’s New Creation in Worship

Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us.

Feature Story | September 12, 2013

Awesome in Glory - Doug Porter

A dramatic reading for three voices, specifically highlighting God's glory, a central dimension of Christian worship.

Enacted Scripture | March 10, 2011

Coop's Column - Glorify the Lord with Me

Modernity has a kind of airy weightlessness, a lack of seriousness and significance. So, when it comes to the matter of “setting their minds on things eternal”—that is, of paying any heed to the world beyond sight and sound—most contemporary people are pretty breezy and airy.

Reflection | September 17, 2010

Symposium 2009 - The Glory of God and Faithful Worship

This session probed key scriptural texts on the theme of divine glory, reviewed contributions of influential theological texts, and explored the pastoral dimensions of weaving this luminous theme into everyday ministry back home.

Audio | January 01, 2009

Beauty Will Save the World: Jonathan Edwards and Abraham Kuyper on Glory and Beauty

Should Christian worship explicitly call our attention to and direct us toward the world and its need, to social action? Or does such worship in fact turn us away from the triune God, the proper focus of our worship? This workshop will explore some ways Abraham Kuyper and Jonathan Edwards?both theologians of beauty and glory, and both very socially engaged?might point us in the right direction.

Audio | January 01, 2008

Symposium 2007 - The Glory of God and Faithful Worship

This session delved more deeply into the conference worship theme by probing key scriptural texts on the theme of divine glory, reviewing contributions of influential theological texts, and then exploring the pastoral dimensions of weaving this luminous theme into everyday ministry back home.

Audio | January 01, 2007

Glory

A word study on "glory" and its divergent connotations in worship and modern culture.

Article | June 21, 2005