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Find out why Christians from many traditions are rediscovering the Psalter for singing, prayer, and worship. A feature story exploring the use of the psalms in worship.
Many churches devote far more planning and worship service time to music, the sermon, and other service elements than they do to public Scripture reading. A feature story exploring the importance of Scripture memorization and public reading.
A word study on "psalm," calling out the deep historical tradition of not only reading, but also singing psalms.
Resources for Psalmody including recordings, readings, chant, responsorial & metrical psalms, and contemporary & popular music idioms.
The Genevan Psalter is the most important source of metrical psalmody in the continental Reformed tradition.
A Psalm setting for Psalm 137 with a simple chorus. It is an example of a folk-like musical idiom.
Metrical Psalm settings for Psalm 23.
Some examples of musical psalm settings.
The second weekday service plan in a series on Hebrews, concentrating on the passages from Hebrews which present Christ as the one who is ascended to heaven and is enthroned at the right hand of God.
An order of worship planned around Hebrews 11, originally held at the Calvin Symposium on Worship. The fourth of a six-part series on the book of Hebrews from the 2008 Symposium on Worship. These services are designed to rejuvenate the vigor of the faithful by returning us to our first love: our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ.
A service plan focused on the Beatitudes and the blessing on those who are reviled in this world in a series on the Beatitudes.
A service plan for October leading up to Reformation Day focused on the authority of Scripture as a guide for believing and living in a four-week series on truths from the Reformation.
