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A worship service with Vital Worship Grant recipients gathered at Calvin College for a time of worship, learning, and sharing together.
Making weddings more like worship infuses them with sparkle and meaning that last far beyond memories of who wore what.
A Christian wedding is a reflection of the people getting married. But the wedding is not meant to be just about one couple. A Christian wedding at its best is also a form of worship in which God calls and the gathered people respond.
Skills for leading people in song in a musically multilingual world
A morning worship service from the 2015 Calvin Symposium on Worship led by M. Craig Barnes, preaching, 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2
Plenary session delivered by Calvin Seerveld.
On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative.
You’ve probably sung his “Shine, Jesus, Shine” and “Knowing You.” But his worship leading has changed since he wrote those songs.
Usually teachers give the homily during daily worship at Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey. When the school asked every eighth grader to give a homily, the results surprised and blessed the whole community.
The learning went both ways when two school communities decided to “dwell in the Psalms” for a year. Their Psalms-based creations revealed that the Spirit can work through kids and adults of any age to nourish faith.
A teaching video on singing Punjabi Zabor 24
Many cultural practices in North America astonish non-Western worshipers. One of the most striking is how the Bible is handled.
