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Reflection | February 16, 2021 Praying at the Table, Praying at the Font 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Video | March 19, 2020 A Sacramental Vision for Public Worship 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar Video | February 09, 2020 Closing Communion Worship: The Ascension Closing Communion Worship on Acts 1:1-11: The Ascension at the 2018 Worship Symposium. Video | June 19, 2019 Trinitarian Sacramental Theology 2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar Audio | April 24, 2019 Serious Play: Insights from Augustine and Other Friends from the Early Church on Leading Worship and Administering Sacraments Led by Lester Ruth, this workshop explored insights from Augustine and others in the early church that can break open playful, Scriptural imagination for leading in worship. Audio | May 09, 2018 Means of Grace: Forming New and Sustaining “Renewing” Congregations and Church Plants In this seminar, veteran practitioners discussed how mission-shaped preaching and sacramental life function as means of grace in their communities. Audience engaged a discussion that sees evangelism and robust worship as beautifully integrated elements of every congregation’s ministry. Audio | May 04, 2018 Ron Rienstra on the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving Christian traditions refer to the prayer before communion as the eucharistic prayer, the Great Thanksgiving, or the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving. If your Lord’s Suppers don’t include this prayer, then you very well may be missing out on a rich opportunity for faith formation. Conversation | July 21, 2017 Ron Rienstra on Liturgical Performance and Improvisation You might think of performance as totally out of place in Holy Communion. But performance and improvisation can help leaders and worshipers show and tell the gospel with their whole selves. Conversation | July 21, 2017 Teaching Children about the Meaning of the Lord's Supper Gathering at God's Table is a new, vividly-illustrated bilingual children's book which introduces young children to the meaning and significance of the Lord's Supper Audio | February 22, 2017 The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving at Baptism and the Lord's Supper In the past 40 years, many Protestant communions have recovered a robust, historically-oriented prayer of thanksgiving at celebrations of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Audio | February 14, 2017 Learning to Worship for the Life of the World For the Life of the World is one of the most influential books ever written on the sacraments. Audio | February 29, 2016 Invitation to Christ: Sacramentally Centered Worshiping Communities In worship, Christ is proclaimed to us not only in the Word that falls on our ears, but also in the “visible words” that are set before our eyes. At the font, God’s grace is washed upon our brows, and at the Lord’s Table, it is received into our hands and tasted with our mouths. Audio | February 25, 2013 Symposium 2012 Photo Slideshow A slideshow of images from the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship, held January 26-28, 2012. The annual Calvin Symposium on Worship is an annual, three-day ecumenical conference that brings together a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders and planners, artists, musicians, scholars, students, and other interested worshipers. This year, the symposium explored praying and worshiping through the Psalms. Slideshow | February 13, 2012 Talking with Children about the Sacraments These two mothers of young children have a particular interest in helping children understand what it means to be baptized and to participate in the Lord’s Supper. Audio | January 27, 2012 Dying and Rising with Christ: Sacraments, Church Unity, and Faith Formation Baptism and the Lord's Supper are two indispensable practices of Christian worship. This seminar from Symposium 2012 focused on three key themes. Audio | Video | January 26, 2012 Reformed-Roman Catholic dialogue: Baptism and the Lord's Supper Reformed-Roman Catholic dialogue: Baptism and the Lord's Supper Article | October 25, 2011 Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: The Transformer's Instruments God’s Word teaches that the Spirit employs four principal means for shaping Christians: Scripture, the sacraments, a person’s life experiences, and time. Reflection | October 05, 2011 Many Tongues A celebration of World Communion Sunday need not be odd or uncomfortable for people with a limited experience of languages and cultures other than their own . Article | December 01, 2010 Remembering Baptism: Living Wet More congregations are seeing baptism as a sacrament that begins a lifelong pilgrimage. This shift leads them to pay more attention to baptismal living in worship and daily life. A feature story exploring the practices of the sacrament of baptism. Feature Story | September 30, 2009 1 2 Next »