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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 Conversation | October 30, 2019

The Costly Loss of the OT Prophets

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio Audio | May 10, 2019

Truth that Awakens Holy Desire

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio Audio | May 08, 2019

The Love of God for All People and Creatures

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word

Worship Service Worship Service | Video Video | February 21, 2019

Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets

Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.

Conversation Conversation | December 12, 2018

The Gospel of John in the Pulpit

This seminar explored the Gospel of John and offered cultural clues that help the gospel’s stories spring to life in new and unexpected ways.

Audio Audio | April 23, 2018

Congregations and Sermons: A Biblical Scholar's Vision for Imaginative, Communal Sermon Listening

Most of us consider the Bible more than an anthology or a textual repository for the ancient Israelites' and early Christians' religious traditions.

Audio Audio | July 06, 2017

Kathy Hanson on Youth Delivering Homilies

Usually teachers give the homily during daily worship at Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey. When the school asked every eighth grader to give a homily, the results surprised and blessed the whole community.

Conversation Conversation | November 07, 2014

Growing in Grace: A four-week series to get your church education plans off to a great start

Another September rolls around. If you’re a typical worship and liturgy planner, you’re probably thinking, We really ought to highlight the beginning of another season of education. On the heels of that thought comes another: We need to commission our education leaders. Where do we find a liturgy for that?

Worship Service Worship Service | August 13, 2014

Show, Don't Tell: Keeping Sermons Vivid

Throughout the average week people talk about their lives and their families and their work through stories about whosaid what, how a certain event came about, and what something looked like and felt like when it happened. But too oftenon Sundays preachers present sermons that are short on vivid stories and long on description and the doling out of facts.In this workshop those who preach sermons and those who listen to sermons will explore both why vividness in sermons is vital and some ideas on how to make this happen in sermons as well.

Audio Audio | March 04, 2014

Service Series

A list of our service series.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 03, 2011

Planning Worship Series Ahead

Worship planned in series provides for a greater cumulative impact on the spiritual life of a congregation as a theme is continually reinforced.

Topic Showcase Topic Showcase | September 01, 2011

An iPod because iPreach

The wealth of resources for busy preachers available through something like iTunes is a bit staggering. And you can find sermons there too.

Audio Audio | February 18, 2011

Symposium 2011 - Someday You'll Be a Good Preacher

The journey to good preaching is as filled with twists and turns as a Rocky Mountain highway. Stan Mast is a veteran road warrior who shares hard-won insights into what it takes to become a good preacher. Special attention is paid to the sharp-tongued critics who can drive aspiring preachers off the road.

Audio Audio | January 28, 2011

In the Lord (Sermon Notes)

Sermon notes from Philippians 4: 1-7

Article Article | December 23, 2010

God at Work (Philippians 2)

A worship service outline on Philippians 2: 12-13

Worship Service Worship Service | December 22, 2010

Matthew's Sermon on the Mount

This study of Matthew 5-7 investigated the main teachings of the whole sermon and their relation to us, the Church, and the world.

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

In Other Words: A Conversation on Preaching

Sermons usually say in other words what Scripture says, and do in other words what Scripture does --assure, warn, encourage, inform, inspire--. But they say and do Scripture in a great many ways and they can sound very different from each other depending on the acoustics of time, place, and audience.

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

Worshiping the Trinity in Exile: The Prophetic Church with a Post-Era Mission

In a post-postmodern, high-tech, super-hyped, and anti-institutional world, how should we be Church and how should we be the Church at worship and in mission? How will our means match the ends so that worship is faithful to the Jesus of the cross?

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

Preaching the Great Stories of Genesis

An absentee father with a son of blistering hate; a frightened man pimping his wife; a penniless mother left to die; a husband beaten down by his wily woman. The stories from Genesis read like last night's news.

Audio Audio | March 22, 2010