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We are pleased to present 27 visual symbols that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.
As part of the Dwelling in the Psalms year, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has provided resources to support Psalm festivals around Canada and the United States. These events are open to the public and many will be livestreamed.
El Salmo 46 nos ofrece un canto de confianza plena ante las crisis nacionales. Es también una confesión nacional de la profunda confianza que el pueblo ha adquirido, a partir de su liberación, que le permite celebrar a Dios como su castillo protector ante los peligros de muerte. Puede mirar el futuro con plena confianza habiendo aprendido de la reciente intervención de Dios.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Luz de Vida Methodist Church has discovered a new way to preach the gospel through theater. What began as a pastoral dream has become a formal ministry that blends faith, creativity, and community transformation into “Homiluz.”
La Iglesia Metodista Luz de Vida ha encontrado en el teatro una nueva manera de predicar el Evangelio. Lo que comenzó como un sueño pastoral se ha convertido en un ministerio formal que combina fe, creatividad y transformación comunitaria: Homiluz.
In Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, we tend to gravitate toward the prophets or the gospels—and for good reason, as they easily support and explicate the themes of Advent. But if you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary for Advent this year, consider dwelling with the psalms.
This conference, part of CICW’s year of dwelling in the psalms, takes place February 5–6, 2026. Worship services and breakout sessions will explore the many ways the biblical psalms form, encourage, and inspire Christians in their public worship and daily life.
A Bethel University grant project blessed Catholics and Protestants in the greater South Bend area of Northern Indiana. It used Richard Foster’s six streams of Christian tradition to create Via Crucis, an experience of the stations of the cross with visual art, music, poetry, and more.
El salmista reflexiona sobre el eterno refugio que Dios es para quienes lo siguen y la inexorable realidad de la muerte, consecuencia de nuestra maldad.Entre ambas realidades brotan la misericordia y el favor de Dios y, con ellos, nuestra esperanza de mejores días, a pesar de cómo somos nosotros y nosotras.El salmo busca la sabiduría para vivir con entrega e intensidad, para tener la oportunidad de llenar la vida de sentido al servir a Dios en los demás. Y esto con la plena confianza de que Dios ha de prosperar nuestras labores y responder a nuestro ruego.
