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Worship in the Season of Creation and Earth-Themed Sundays

Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays.

September 12, 2013 | 6 min read
Green Congregations Celebrate God’s New Creation in Worship

Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us.

September 12, 2013 | 7 min read
Gerardo Marti on Emerging Church Demographics

After writing three books about multicultural worship, Gerardo Marti has applied his research skills to what’s been called the emerging church or emergent Christianity.

August 8, 2013 | 1 min read

Ericson Alexander Molano: God Moves in the Midst of Praise and Worship

Integrity, humility and passion are some of the virtues that describe this young Colombian who grew up in the midst of mission trips, Bible studies and worship services due to his parent’s pastoral work.

July 31, 2013 | 18 min read
Danilo Montero: “Worship is tuning the Latino ear and musical sense”

In the past 25 years, Danilo Montero’s contribution has had such an influence on the Hispanic Church that his songs are part of worship in the Latino churches of the United States and in all countries that speak the language of Cervantes.

July 30, 2013 | 13 min read

Tony Perez on the Silence of God

Although Tony Perez was born in a Christian home in his Guatemalan homeland, it wasn’t until he was 22 that he had a personal encounter with the Lord, in a small church in the city of Huntington Park, California.

July 30, 2013 | 26 min read
Luis Enrique Espinosa on Commercialization generates music with “massage” instead of message.

Thousands of young people have been challenged and motivated thanks to the ministry of “New Generation”, which Luis Enrique Espinosa and his wife Nilda founded more than a decade ago.

July 30, 2013 | 19 min read
Doris Machin: "It is not one’s gender but one’s heart that defines one’s work in the Lord"

Doris Machin has sung before many different audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

July 30, 2013 | 32 min read

Eddie Soto on Reencountering God at a Nightclub

When Chilean Eddie Soto was only nine years old, God touched his heart and planted a seed of light in his life. When adolescence arrived, he was so passionate about music that he forgot the experience he lived as a nine-year-old child.

July 30, 2013 | 19 min read
Bob Waldrop on How Earth Care Led Him to God

In this edited conversation, based on emails and an April 2013 phone conversation, Bob Waldorp explains how his church work and activism fit together.

July 11, 2013 | 4 min read
Visiting Scholars Connect Worship and Life

Academic study can be a deep resource used to strengthen faith and ministry. It gives us language and frameworks to respectfully discuss vexing worship issues.

June 17, 2013 | 6 min read