The Love of God for All People and Creatures
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word
February 21, 2019
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52 min video
Worship that Cares for People Pastorally
You may think of pastoral care mainly as personal visits to someone’s hospital room or home. But Howard Vanderwell wrote that the entire worship service has “powerful potential for caring for worshipers’ needs.” His book Caring Worship: Helping Worship Leaders Provide Pastoral Care through the Liturgy explains how.
February 13, 2019
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7 min read
Why We Still Have Hope / Por qué aún tenemos esperanza
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word & Table
February 13, 2019
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75 min video
The God of Joy in the Midst of Our Troubles
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word
February 11, 2019
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71 min video
Birgitta Johnson on New African American Ecumenical Hymnal
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism is a new Protestant hymnal compiled by a core committee of worship arts ministers and scholars. It goes deep and wide into the multiple streams of black Christian music and worship.
January 7, 2019
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6 min read
Birgitta Johnson on Praise and Worship Music
Praise and worship music can lift worshipers’ hearts to God and unite people across culture, religious tradition, and background. But the genre is not meant to be the only kind of music in a congregation’s repertoire.
January 7, 2019
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7 min read
Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets
Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.
December 12, 2018
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7 min read
John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World
Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.
December 4, 2018
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5 min read
Joyce Ann Zimmerman on 14 Years of Evaluating Vital Worship Grants
During her 14 years on Calvin Institute of Christian Worship’s Grants Advisory Board, Joyce Ann Zimmerman evaluated 1,345 grant proposals. She describes essentials of a good grant project.
November 9, 2018
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5 min read
Mental Illness and Christian Worship
This topic showcase highlights resources for including people with mental illnesses in worship. Congregations that renew their worship to become more inclusive discover that everyone benefits.
October 30, 2018
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8 min read
John 21:15–25: Jesus Reinstates Peter
A worship service held at Worship Symposium 2018.
October 5, 2018
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64 min video
Eddie Espinosa on Changes in Contemporary Worship Music
Eddie Espinosa, composer of “Change My Heart, O God,” explains why those who lead worship need to cultivate heart holiness.
August 22, 2018
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6 min read
