All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Worshipers Worship- Meaning of Dance Intergenerational Worship Music Technology Worship- Preparing for Visual Arts Language Arts/Words Worship- Leading Preaching Worship- Planning Teaching Daily Prayer/Reflection Grants Interdisciplinary Drama Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Christian Year Occasion All Funerals Symposium Resources War Lessons and Carols Ascension Hymn Festival Advent Weddings Weekday Services Epiphany Natural Disasters Pentecost Teaching Worship Commissionings Thanksgiving Easter Christ the King Christmas Healing Services Anniversaries Taize Ordination/Installation Heidelberg Catechism Summer Passion Week Lent Dedications Search results 1 - 20 of 150 Sort by: Title | Date Preparing Our Preaching Pedagogies for the Year 2030 In this paper, Jared Alcántara proposes a twenty-first century preaching pedagogy that he describes as “a turn toward improvisational teaching that is technologically innovative, intentionally collaborative, and strategically diverse.” Academic Article | July 06, 2020 Deep Calls to Deep: Nurturing Preachers for the Work of Proclamation Deep Calls to Deep is a program to strengthen preaching by using communities of peer groups to nurture pastors’ own spiritual, emotional, physical, and imaginative lives. In this paper, Ruthanna Hooke discusses the structure and themes of Deep Calls to Deep, a peer group learning program rooted in the conviction that preaching is soul-work. Academic Article | June 17, 2020 Dennis R. Edwards on 1 Peter and Good Shepherd Sunday For lectionary Year A, Good Shepherd Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Easter, includes a reading from 1 Peter. New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards explains why Peter’s first letter is especially relevant as people deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Conversation | April 14, 2020 Preaching in the Power of the Spirit (with a Global-South Twist): Insights into the Spirit's Empowering of Hearers and Preachers of the Word 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar Video | March 02, 2020 Improvisational Preaching 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | February 28, 2020 Worship Symposium Speaks Hope and Grace The theme of “Living in Hope and Grace,” based on 1 Peter, threaded through much of the three-day Calvin Symposium on Worship that drew some 1,500 participants Jan. 30 - Feb. 1 from across North America and beyond. News Item | February 25, 2020 1 Peter's Prickly Passages 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | February 10, 2020 The Bowed Head: How Preachers Deal with Grief 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | February 10, 2020 Eschatological Preaching: Imitating the Tension, Movement and Hope of the Gospel 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | February 10, 2020 Preachers Need Friends, Too The peer cohort is a place for preachers to strengthen their skills in real time while building intentional friendships. Reflection | February 04, 2020 Final Exams Every Week: Life with a Peer Learning Group Peer learning groups promote faithful endurance and mutual encouragement in the face of what makes the preaching life challenging. Reflection | January 06, 2020 Pedagogical Insights on Teaching African American Preaching This essay reflects on Frank Thomas' unique journey through the pastorate to become a teacher of preaching, and on the pedagogy he developed along the way. Academic Article | December 11, 2019 Trauma-Informed Worship: Address Trauma to Begin Healing Most pastors realize that people come to church with deep fears, sorrows, and concerns that often remain unexpressed in worship. But because Mount Aery Baptist Church has worked to become a trauma-informed congregation, its worship services are becoming a communal place of healing. Feature Story | November 12, 2019 Mandy Smith on The Vulnerable Pastor Christian leaders, especially pastors, sometimes feel bad about the gap between their ideal of Christlike ministry and the reality. Pastor Mandy Smith explains that honestly accepting vulnerabilities and human limitations makes room for God’s strength to be revealed in people and congregations. Conversation | November 05, 2019 Anthony L. Bennett on Engaging Trauma in Sermons Many urban pastors deal with trauma. Some preach without benefit of pay or formal training. This Baptist church gathered its associate ministers monthly to learn about trauma and exegete Scripture to engage people hungry for healing and justice. Conversation | October 30, 2019 Sherrye Willis and Angela Johnson on Faith-Based Healing from Trauma Ten African American churches in Texas are focusing on helping youth understand and heal from trauma. This knowledge helps adults become more aware of their own trauma and is changing worship practices. Conversation | October 15, 2019 From Colleagues to Companions: Unexpected Fruits of a Peer Learning Group What do you get when you put a diverse group of clergy around a table once a month? More beauty than you might expect. Reflection | August 28, 2019 The Costly Loss of the OT Prophets 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | May 10, 2019 Truth that Awakens Holy Desire 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | May 08, 2019 Preaching While White: Practices of Humility and Courage in the Face of Injustice 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | April 10, 2019 1 2 3 ... Next »
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