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Here are ideas for how to incorporate the creeds into a series of services, music, art, and specific places within the order of worship.
The Sunday after Pentecost is often called Trinity Sunday in recognition that all three persons of the Trinity have now been remembered and celebrated in the great festivals of the Christian year.
A colleague was asked point-blank at a workshop recently, “Have changes in worship in the last generation been good or bad?” The short answer may be yes. A longer answer was given at a day-long seminar at the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2006.
Some of the worship practices of early Christians --100-400 A.D.-- were strikingly different but perhaps more biblical than ours today.
A word study on "worship," with specific attention to the medieval meaning of the word and how it flows into a life of "worshipful service."
A word study on "psalm," calling out the deep historical tradition of not only reading, but also singing psalms.
Based on the book "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth," this word study attempts to make sense of the separation between heaven and earth.
A word study on "glory" and its divergent connotations in worship and modern culture.
The Genevan Psalter is the most important source of metrical psalmody in the continental Reformed tradition.
An index of resources for reflection on Old Testament worship practices. Israel's worship in the Old Testament is the liturgical heritage of all Christian worshipers.
A pastor's short reflection on a worship renewal project that included celebrating and remembering old testament Hebrew festivals as the liturgical heritage of all Christian Worship.
A service plan for October leading up to Reformation Day focused on the truth that we are saved by faith alone and we are called to live by faith in a four-week series on truths from the Reformation.
