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A basic flow to the dialogic pattern of worship.
Twenty artists from North America and South Africa created “Between the Shadow and the Light: Artists’ Prophetic Responses to South Africa Today.”
This article describes the role of the worship planner and provides suggestions for worship planning in a wide range of churches and worshiping communities.
We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.
This article translated into Korean calls for worship services that seek to enable the participation of adults and children alike.
an article on how to lead a worship service translated into Korean
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.
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.
Many cultural practices in North America astonish non-Western worshipers. One of the most striking is how the Bible is handled.
The Season of Lent brings to mind the historical practice of fasting, of “giving up” something in order to “take up” something else.
Encouraged by the positive response to our recent Psalmfest program, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship then launched the Hymnfest program, designed to promote learning about what it means to sing the whole of God’s story through vibrant congregational song by participants of all ages.
This service of Lessons and Carols from 2013 journeys through the book of Isaiah sequentially, with readings and music drawn from ten different chapters.
