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John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World

Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.

Conversation | December 04, 2018

Sing Your Prayers for the Worldwide Church

These resources will help you combine songs and prayers so your whole congregation can pray together for global Christians and international issues.

Article | April 28, 2014

Karen Campbell, Jerry Pillay and Eric Sarwar on Global Prayer

Praying for the worldwide church was a priority at the 2014 Calvin Symposium on Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leaders from many nations described how to pray for their churches and fellow citizens. Three of them, all Presbyterian pastors, also gave brief interviews.

Conversation | April 28, 2014

Public Intercessory Prayer that Renews Worship

Want a no-cost, non-controversial way to renew worship for all ages in your congregation? Start praying for the worldwide church.

Feature Story | April 28, 2014

Praying Together in Worship

How much of what’s on our screens, in our hearts, and in our conversations gets reflected in prayer during worship?

Feature Story | February 15, 2013

How to Make Congregational Prayer More Participatory

Especially for children, listening to the congregational prayer can feel more like enduring a monologue than participating in the prayers of the people. But it doesn’t have to.

Feature Story | February 15, 2013

How to Make a You-Who-Do-To-Through Prayer

You-who-do-to-through prayers follow an ancient pattern for making a short prayer with a single theme. Worshipers speak the prayer together, collecting their voices into one.

Article | November 15, 2012

Tom Swieringa on Cooperating in Intercessory Prayer

Tom Swieringa co-leads Wyoming Kingdom Enterprise Zone, a church multiplication initiative by Reformed and Christian Reformed churches in Wyoming, Michigan. He has pastored and planted churches in Iowa, Michigan, South Dakota, and Texas. In this edited conversation, he talks about cooperating with God in intercessory prayer, during worship and beyond.

Conversation | October 26, 2012

Symposium 2009 - Jesus: Our Worship Leader

This seminar explored the wonderful truth that when we gather, our living Lord is present and active in our midst?empowering, perfecting and leading our worship. Behind all true worship, regardless of its form or style, is the present mediating ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Audio | January 01, 2009

Christ's Priesthood and Our Praises

This workshop will explore the implications for liturgy and preaching which arrive from recognizing afresh 1-- the reality of Christ's priesthood and 2-- that we are, in George Herbert's phrase, "Secretaries of thy praise."

Audio | January 01, 2008

Praying with the Early Church: Crucial Lessons about Intercessory Prayer

This session reviewed several prayer texts from the third to the fifth century, and then probed the very practical ways they might challenge us to pray more deeply in worship today.