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Praying at the Table, Praying at the Font

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Video Video | March 19, 2020

A Sacramental Vision for Public Worship

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Video 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 Video | June 19, 2019

Trinitarian Sacramental Theology

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Audio 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Audio | Video 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 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 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 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 Feature Story | September 30, 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