All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Online Discussion Podcast Prayer Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Christian Year Daily Prayer/Reflection Dance Drama Grants Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Worship Language Arts/Words Music Preaching Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Teaching Technology Visual Arts Worshipers Worship- Leading Worship- Meaning of Worship- Planning Worship- Preparing for 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 31 Sort by: Title | Date The Gospel, Christ, Spiritual Disciplines, and Personal Transformation: Examing Dallas Willard's Account in Light of the Biblical Vision of Salvation 2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop Audio | February 09, 2020 Listening to Your Listeners: A Preaching Preparation Process That Changes…Everything! During this workshop, participants discover how diverse congregations have established and maintained pre-sermon dialogue groups. Audio | March 11, 2015 Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem? Audio | February 20, 2015 Spiritual Preparation for Those Who Lead Worship Those who lead worship must be people who have been born again by the Spirit of God, and therefore show forth some of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, and self-control. Article | November 08, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Seminary Chapel Websites This list is a select review of items of interest found on seminary worship websites, organized according to common themes: Customaries, Denominational Diversity, Stylistic Variety, Curricular Integration, and Other issues. Article | November 03, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Seminary Chapel Survey In the spring of 2007, a questionnaire was sent to all ATS-accredited Protestant seminaries in the USA. The purpose of the study was to begin to map the range of practices and policies at the nation’s seminaries surrounding community worship. Thus, the questionnaire asked simple questions and invited reflection and feedback. The questions were divided into four primary categories: Leadership, Liturgy, Community, and Curriculum. Article | November 03, 2010 Studying Worship on Seminary Campuses: Other Analytical Tools Surveys are wonderful – though limited – tools for gathering data on worship priorities and practices. The survey used by the CICW/Brehm study group asked broad questions in four categories: Leadership, Liturgy, Community, and Curriculum. Many other research goals and strategies might suggest other questions and/or analytical data-gathering mechanisms. Article | November 03, 2010 The Substance of Things Seen (Book Excerpt) The Substance of Things Seen explores the intersection of art and faith, offering thoughtful reflections on the way art functions in Christian life and practice. Book Excerpt | October 20, 2010 Tending the Heart: Soul Care for Worship Leaders It is all too easy for worship leaders--preachers and musicians alike-to--slip into "mere professionalism." When that happens, we settle into dull habit, holy things no longer stir our soul, and God becomes distant and even abstract? This session examined that spiritual danger and suggested some practices to "guard our souls." Audio | March 22, 2010 Seven Deadly Sins: Time for churches to reclaim the tradition It's time for the church to reclaim and apply the concept of the Seven Deadly Sins or Capital Vices to spiritual formation. A feature story exploring the Seven Deadly Sins. Feature Story | January 26, 2010 Planning Worship for a Seven Deadly Sins Series So many churches have recently done a series of worship services on the seven deadly sins that you can find ample ideas for your setting. You can plan the whole service to help worshipers frame their experience of vice within the overarching story of God’s forgiveness and reconciling grace. Feature Story | January 26, 2010 Profession of Faith: Can it Be Revitalized? Our faith formation is marked by certain milestones. One milestone is public profession of faith or confirmation. When this occurs might vary, but at whatever age, this milestone needs to be vital. This session explored how to recapture a sense of the privilege of professing your faith, make it a celebration, and regularly reaffirm it. Audio | January 01, 2009 From Confirmation or Profession of Faith to Multiple Milestones of Faith What is confirmation or profession of faith for? Does it certify knowledge, open the communion table, affirm acceptance of baptism, mark a milestone in a continuing faith journey? A feature story exploring the meaning behind profession of faith. Feature Story | September 02, 2008 Confirmation and Profession of Faith Practices Are Changing Two concerns, young adults who drop out of church and adult churchgoers who stop growing in discipleship, are pushing denominations to rethink their approach to the sacraments. Feature Story | September 02, 2008 The Seven Deadly Sins and Spiritual Formation A curriculum engaging students in spiritual formation, helping them to diagnose the sins, remove barriers, and replace them with new habits of thought and feeling. Article | June 01, 2007 Weak Fools - 1 Corinthians 4 A service plan built around 1 Corinthians 4. Not only is the message of the cross foolishness to the world, but those of us who serve Christ are also viewed as "fools for the sake of Christ." Still, we must resist the temptation to soften our distinctiveness to minimize the cost to us. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Losers and Finders - Matthew 16 A service plan in an Epiphany series in preparation for Lent based on Matthew 16:21-28. The central focus is the twist of losing our lives to find them in Christ. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 The Time of Reassessment - Job 42, Psalm 92, Isaiah 46, Matthew 6, 1 Corinthians 10 The fifth service plan in a series entitled "Chapters of Life." This services focuses on the transition that takes place when the children are gone and the "nest is empty." Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Worship Service: A Foolish Message - 1 Corinthians 1 A worship service plan focusing on the central message of the Christian Gospel: Salvation comes through the cross of Jesus Christ. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Radical Surgery - Matthew 18 A service plan in an Epiphany series in preparation for Lent focused on listening well, examining Jesus' teachings carefully, and gaining a more complete understanding of the life of discipleship. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 1 2 Next »
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