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Here are four easy-to-implement strategies to allow each sermon to be more formative in our daily lives. Article | February 14, 2018 Sport and the Christian Life Sport has a legitimate place in the Christian life. Article | July 25, 2017 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 | July 05, 2017 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 | June 28, 2017 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 | 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 | Conversation | Video | May 30, 2012 Yvette Lau on worship in Hong Kong Conversation with Yvette Lau about a worship symposium in Hong Kong. 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 | 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 | 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 | January 28, 2011 Christian Worship in the 4th Century Jerusalem What might an ancient church have to say for renewing our worship today? Audio | January 28, 2011 Data about Worship Practices Helpful data websites about worship practices. Website | November 01, 2010 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 | 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 | 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 | January 01, 2009 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 | January 01, 2009 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 | 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 | 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. 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 | March 01, 2006 1 2 Next »