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This seminar is for students, staff, teachers, and any others interested in deepening and renewing worship in Christian High school chapel services through thoughtful worship planning and leading.
This service of Psalm 1, Jesus Knows the Way of the Righteous, was part of the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2012. The liturgy and music was led by students from Calvin College with Mary Hulst preaching.
Newsletters for the Vertical Habits
A list of practical resources for Vertical Habits
How studying a book or sermons together in a small group knits church members together in worship, fellowship, and discipleship.
A conversation with Bonnie Lee on Sermon-based Small Groups
John Zimmerman and Matt Kennedy share a mutual interest in using technology to reach people for Christ. They say it’s easier than you might think to start streaming your church worship services live so that people at remote locations can join you.
You don’t need to be a wealthy megachurch to welcome and serve online worshipers, but it helps to have an online usher.
The Triune God, through the Spirit's ongoing work, equips each member of his body for being suitable helpers to each other.
How does Christian worship form and support a Christian way of life? How do worship services reflect and promote particular Christian practices and ways of thinking?
Doubting is cool nowadays—it’s “in.” Some Christians, a few pastors among them, seem to take no small delight in announcing that they’re no longer sure about the centralities of the faith.
God’s Word teaches that the Spirit employs four principal means for shaping Christians: Scripture, the sacraments, a person’s life experiences, and time.
