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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.
After the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship published Dwelling with Philippians with Eerdmans in 2010, many church Bible study groups studied Philippians using this book as a resource, and have asked for more suggestions similar to Dwelling. Though there are few available on specific books of the Bible, this bibliography is an invitation to biblical study through image and word, each with a different approach.
As you begin thinking about why and how to renovate your church, consider gathering a group to talk through these priorities and discussion questions.
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.
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?
A conversation on the use of connection cards, cards that allow people to respond to the sermon with service.
Newsletters for the 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.
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.
A list of practical resources for Vertical Habits
