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Salmo 90: Sabiduría para la vida diaria ante la realidad de la muerte

El salmista reflexiona sobre el eterno refugio que Dios es para quienes lo siguen y la inexorable realidad de la muerte, consecuencia de nuestra maldad.Entre ambas realidades brotan la misericordia y el favor de Dios y, con ellos, nuestra esperanza de mejores días, a pesar de cómo somos nosotros y nosotras.El salmo busca la sabiduría para vivir con entrega e intensidad, para tener la oportunidad de llenar la vida de sentido al servir a Dios en los demás. Y esto con la plena confianza de que Dios ha de prosperar nuestras labores y responder a nuestro ruego.

November 12, 2025 | 13 min read
CICW Staff Members’ Favorite Psalm Resources

Want to help your community spend more time with the psalms? With so many resources to choose from, how do you find the right ones for your context? The team at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) is here to help. We keep this page updated with our top recommendations. 

November 12, 2025 | 2 min read
Worship Institute Receives Grant to Continue Shalom-Shaping Work

The three-year grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will support further work in grantmaking, resource development, and formative learning events.

October 20, 2025 | 2 min read

Thanksgiving Resource Guide

Thanksgiving celebrations were an important part of the people's worship before God. Throughout history, worshiping communities have set aside certain times and days as events of special thanksgiving to God.

October 9, 2025 | 1 min read
Psalm Festival Program

As part of its year of Dwelling in the Psalms, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is providing support to worshiping communities throughout the United States and Canada to host a public psalm festival worship event that features congregational singing based on Psalms. We encourage using the resource Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship (Brazos and Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2012) and other psalm resources of your choosing.

October 3, 2025 | 2 min read

Salmo 15: La ética social como requisito de la adoración

El Salmo 15 es un llamado a adorar a Dios con integridad y justicia en nuestras relaciones con el prójimo. En la medida en que, diariamente, vivimos nuestras relaciones sociales con acciones de justicia y respeto hacia nuestros semejantes, nuestro culto es aceptable al Señor. 

October 1, 2025 | 9 min read
Kai Ton Chau on Love of Learning and Worship Leader Well-Being

Scholar Kai Ton Chau makes the case that churches should support worship leaders by giving them opportunities to learn and grow in their jobs.

September 30, 2025 | 6 min read
Vertical Habits: Worship and Our Faith Vocabulary

Vertical Habits is a name given to the process of connecting words used in our relationship with people with words used to express these emotions to God. The biblical Psalms are the foundational mentor and guide in this vocabulary and grammar for worship.

September 10, 2025 | 5 min read

Mark Franzen on Experiencing God through Sacred Music

A sacred music grant project helped Catholic parishioners from many ethnicities—Anglo, Eritrean, Filipino, Latino, Nigerian, Vietnamese, and more—experience the awe and mystery of faith and God. 

August 29, 2025 | 9 min read
Salmo 19: Escuchar la Palabra en la creación y en la Biblia

El salmo celebra la realidad de que la creación, día a día, proclama la gloria de Dios, su poder y su generosidad. La Palabra es también el medio por el cual Dios nos instruye para que vivamos plenamente la vida. Dios, por medio de su Espíritu, transforma nuestra vida para que vivamos una vida plena y agradable a Él. 

August 27, 2025 | 11 min read
CICW Global Psalm Gallery

A crowd-sourced collection of Psalm interpretations from worshiping communities across the spectrum of Christian traditions that premiered at the 2021 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

August 26, 2025 | 1 min read