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Kyle H. Heys

Four Learning Practices for Sermon Engagement

Learning practices have rich application for sermon engagement. Here are four easy-to-implement strategies to allow each sermon to be more formative in our daily lives.

Article Article | February 14, 2018

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Sport and the Christian Life

Sport has a legitimate place in the Christian life.

Article Article | July 25, 2017

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Strengthening Congregational Life by Engaging God's World

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. gives an opening plenary lecture at the 2017 Taking Your Church to College.

Video Video | July 05, 2017

Brian Bolt

Sport and the Christian Life: A Kinesiologist's Call to Action

Most people, young and old, interact with sport. Sport invades our families, churches, television, social media, careers and schools.

Audio Audio | June 28, 2017

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Visiting Scholars Resources You Can Use

Calvin Institute of Christian Worship visiting scholars have produced resources you can use in church, small group, and classroom settings.

Feature Story Feature Story | June 17, 2013

Lisa De Boer on Changing Roles of Visual Art in Churches

Lisa De Boer summarizes her research on the changing role of visual arts in North American churches since World War II. Knowing a bit of this history may help you introduce or strengthen the arts in your congregation.

Article Article | Conversation Conversation | Video Video | May 30, 2012

Yvette Lau on worship in Hong Kong

Conversation with Yvette Lau about a worship symposium in Hong Kong.

Conversation Conversation | May 12, 2011

How Do We Learn During Worship?

What do classrooms and worship services share, and what each can learn from the other?

Audio Audio | January 28, 2011

Allowing the Liturgical Year to Shape Sunday Worship

From Sunday as the first feast of the Christian Church through the later development of a liturgical year that celebrates the life of Christ, this approach to worship offers rich possibilities for shaping celebration.

Audio Audio | January 28, 2011

Worship and Mission after Christendom

As Christendom wanes, worship and mission can be integrated anew. Worship glorifies God and forms the worshippers to participate in the missio Dei.

Audio Audio | January 28, 2011

Christian Worship in the 4th Century Jerusalem

What might an ancient church have to say for renewing our worship today?

Audio Audio | January 28, 2011

Data about Worship Practices

Helpful data websites about worship practices.

Website Website | November 01, 2010

Postmodernism, Worship, and Evangelism

While we often associate "postmodernism" with the explosion of communications technology or the outlandish claims of "deconstruction," this workshop suggested that postmodernism might also mean a return to symbols, icons, and ritual. With this in mind, this workshop explored the shape of worship as evangelism in postmodernity.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

Why Read Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) on Worship?

Abraham Kuyper's accomplishments were many and he had a stellar career. He served as pastor, theologian, founder of the Free University in Amsterdam, chief organizer of a Calvinist political party, prime minister of the Netherlands. He is, however, less well-known for another major contribution-his writings on worship and liturgy which are still relevant for the church today and now appear in an English translation as Our Worship.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

Worship in the Early Church: Unity in Diversity

This seminar explored the history of worship in the early church in the hope that we might learn about, accept, and apply different attitudes and practices in our own times.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

Rediscovering the Lord's Supper: Growing Deeper into the Gospel

A renewed theology and practice of the Lord's Supper can help believers grow into a deeper and multifaceted vision of salvation. Come and explore the ways in which the Lord's Supper illuminates the gospel as participation in Christ by the Spirit.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

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.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Spiritual Formation in Worship-Centered Congregations

Differing circumstances call forth different liturgical, theological and formational questions and inspire different congregational conversations about what we do in worship and why we do it. The workshop began with a PowerPoint presentation on the history of Christian worship and its relationship to spiritual formation in congregational life, concluding with 'where we are now.' Practices for spiritual formation were described in relation to the congregation's worship life.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Whose Art? Which Church?

Those who work at the intersection of the visual arts and congregational life know from experience how rich, complex, rewarding, and often messy this area can be.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

The Last Thirty Years

A colleague was asked point-blank at a workshop recently, “Have changes in worship in the last generation been good or bad?” The short answer may be yes. A longer answer was given at a day-long seminar at the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2006.

Article Article | March 01, 2006