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As you begin thinking about why and how to renovate your church, consider gathering a group to talk through these priorities and discussion questions.
Here are several possible first steps to learn more about ethnodoxology.
So how do you move worshipers to prayerful oneness of purpose? Here are some suggestions from around the world.
An article offering practical tips and exercises for public reading of Scripture.
A slideshow of images from the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship, held January 26-28, 2012. The annual Calvin Symposium on Worship is an annual, three-day ecumenical conference that brings together a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders and planners, artists, musicians, scholars, students, and other interested worshipers. This year, the symposium explored praying and worshiping through the Psalms.
A conversation on the use of connection cards, cards that allow people to respond to the sermon with service.
How can worshipers understand the congregational offering as a response to God’s grace and a way to join God’s reconciling work in the world?
Newsletters for the Vertical Habits
A list of practical resources for Vertical Habits
Joyce Borger is worship and music editor for Faith Alive Christian Resources and editor of the quarterly journal Reformed Worship. In this conversation, Borger discusses the history of Psalm singing, and how she talks to Christians who have no history of singing Psalms in worship about trying it.
With so much around us to invite our curiosity and to evoke our wonder, a bored attitude toward life is sinful. A day’s adventure in the world ought to end, after all, with an exclamation point of thanksgiving to God.
How studying a book or sermons together in a small group knits church members together in worship, fellowship, and discipleship.
