Larry Visser on Wedding Music
Here is guidance on what to consider when choosing wedding music for the prelude, procession, ceremony, recession and postlude.
David H. Kim on Faith and Work
Imagine how your work would change if worship services felt less like a destination and more like a launching pad.
Worship and Discipleship: As It Was…Is…and Shall Be
Nine church leaders and scholars recall and predict hot topics in worship, discipleship and discernment from 1995 to 2025.
Eric Washington on African American Missionaries
Before William Carey founded a mission society, or Adoniram and Ann Judson sailed to Burma, a former African American slave had already become a missionary to Jamaica.
Seven Streams of 21st Century Congregational Song
Skills for leading people in song in a musically multilingual world
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.
Worship and Discipleship: Unresolved Questions in Contemporary Ministry
This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.
Reconciling with the Church
Pope Francis recently said "Christians are not made in a laboratory, but in a community called the church." But what about those people for whom the church has been a source of pain?
Praying and Leading with the Psalms
This workshop offers ideas and activities, many of which have been used with junior high, high school, and college youth, for working with the psalms in small groups or educational settings to prepare pieces that can help lead worship or devotional study.
What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan
Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.
Sacred Time, Holy Ground: Christian Worship and the Practices of Daily Life
Plenary session delivered by Dorothy Bass.
Outward-Faced Worship
Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?