Upcoming Event
An application-based summer seminar directed by Mark Glanville.
June 22-26, 2026
Grand Rapids
,
Michigan
Adapting Vertical Habits to Your Church or School
Focusing on simple phrases helps develop worship habits that affect our whole lives. Vertical habits expand how people talk with God during church worship and school chapels. A feature story exploring relational words that expand worship language.
September 14, 2007
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4 min read
Vertical Habits: Relational words that expand worship language
Focusing on simple phrases helps develop worship habits that affect our whole lives. Vertical habits expand how people talk with God during church worship and school chapels. A feature story exploring relational words that expand worship language.
September 14, 2007
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9 min read
Bringing the Habits Home - From Reformed Worship
Connecting Vertical Habits in worship to vertical habits at home and in our everyday life brings us one step closer to making those habits our natural response.
June 1, 2007
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1 min read
Vertical Habits - From Reformed Worship
When children are young, they learn words that build relationships. Some come easily: “Help!” “Why?” Parents and grandparents persistently teach them to say to others: “Thank you.” “I’m sorry.”
June 1, 2007
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1 min read
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.
June 1, 2007
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1 min read
Robert E Webber's Legacy: Ancient future faith and worship
Ancient future worship is about rooting our worship as the early church did--in God's story--so we embody not our culture but God's mission. A feature story exploring ancient future faith and worship.
May 18, 2007
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20 min read
Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste
Talk about worship aesthetics need not polarize people. Frank Burch Brown tells how to be more inclusive in arts and worship, yet also more discerning. A feature story exploring the idea of "taste" and aesthetics in Christian Worship.
January 5, 2007
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9 min read
Helping Families Grow Closer to God: Worship Beyond Sunday Morning
How do we find God outside of the sanctuary?
January 1, 2007
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56 min listen
Preaching as a Pastoral Care
While preaching is a craft and a skill to be carefully honed and developed, it is also a form of caring. Historically the preacher was called a "shepherd of souls," but cultural shifts have moved us away from this concept. This sectional examines the two-way street that exists in the integration of preaching and pastoral care. Good preaching provides pastoral care. Yet, at the same time good preaching is formed by pastoral care. Both sides of this balance will be examined.
January 1, 2007
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59 min listen
Working with Your Local Media
The relationship between churches and the news media is too often one of mutual indifference or mistrust. This session explores practical ways of connecting with local reporters and maintaining healthy and beneficial relationships with the media.
January 1, 2007
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51 min listen
Stories that Preach
This workshop discussed how contemporary short stories from writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Doris Betts, and Raymond Carver resonate with New Testament themes and how such stories might help preachers find ways to relate contemporary themes to their listeners.
January 1, 2007
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59 min listen
The Complementary Roles of Personal Worship and Corporate Worship in Spiritual Formation
What is spiritual formation?
January 1, 2007