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Listening to Your Listeners: A Preaching Preparation Process That Changes…Everything!

During this workshop, participants discover how diverse congregations have established and maintained pre-sermon dialogue groups.

March 11, 2015 | 57 min listen

The 'Turn Toward the Formative' in Contemporary Worship

Hear first-hand accounts and testimonies about this turn to the formative, and discuss what it might mean for faithful and vital worship in your community.

March 4, 2015 | 206 min listen

Worship and Discipleship: Unresolved Questions in Contemporary Ministry

This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.

February 26, 2015 | 58 min listen
Reconciling with the Church

Pope Francis recently said "Christians are not made in a laboratory, but in a community called the church." But what about those people for whom the church has been a source of pain?

February 25, 2015 | 55 min listen
Developing a Multiethnic Accent in Preaching

Congregations are becoming more diverse which increases the need for the church planter, missionary, and preacher to communicate biblical truth in relevant and compelling ways.

February 25, 2015 | 60 min listen

Praying and Leading with the Psalms

This workshop offers ideas and activities, many of which have been used with junior high, high school, and college youth, for working with the psalms in small groups or educational settings to prepare pieces that can help lead worship or devotional study.

February 25, 2015 | 56 min listen
What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan

Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.

February 23, 2015 | 57 min listen
Outward-Faced Worship

Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?

February 23, 2015 | 61 min listen