The New Testament in Color
Listen to and learn from scholars from diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences who provided exegetical expertise and unique interpretive lenses to The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (IVP Academic, 2024).
Sending Songs Vesper
This vesper service features music from the soon-to-be-released Sending Songs album by the music collective Porter’s Gate. Created in collaboration with Fuller Seminary’s Worship for Workers project, this album offers songs that commission God’s people with mission and purpose into their places of work and play.
Playing Well with Others: Musical Collaboration in the Worship Service
Musical collaboration in worship can be rewarding: it can build relationships, enrich the musical life of a congregation, and add more colors, timbres, and textures.
Why Churches Need Preachers, Not A Preacher
Often the task of preaching falls on the senior pastor or a few gifted speakers. However, congregations need diverse diets and voices to be nourished and equipped by the preaching of God’s word.
Los Salmos para el camino: Nuestra vida en la presencia de Dios
El salmo primero nos ofrece una visión clara del camino de la vida: lo que hemos de evitar y lo que debemos cultivar. El camino que siguen los perversos y despistados, y el que siguen las personas que han hecho de la instrucción y guía de la Palabra su norma de vida. Jesús como camino nos ha dejado un claro y desafiante modelo de vida. Él es el camino, verdad y vida (Juan 14:6).
CICW Awards Grants for 62 New Projects in Worship and Preaching
Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants fund diverse projects for worshiping communities and teacher-scholars.
Philippians Resource Guide
A topic guide to resources related to the book of Philippians.
Ben Peltz on Indigenous Justice and Worship in Canada
Joining a racial justice pilgrimage in the American South helped a Canadian pastor see parallels to the experiences of Indigenous and settler peoples in his congregation. These insights are helping his church become more appreciative of God’s incarnation in Indigenous people.
Jemar Tisby on The Spirit of Justice
The Black church has deep experience of suffering and being denied God-given and legal rights. As turbulent times affect more people, Jemar Tisby’s book The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance describes how Black Christians have kept the faith.
Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts on the Doxological and Historical Significance of the Nicene Creed
Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts serve on a planning team for an October worship event in Egypt to mark the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the ecumenical creed that emerged in the year 325 and remains firmly embedded in the worship practices of the church today.
Jane Williams on the Nicene Creed as a Creative and Exciting Description of Who God Is
Jane Williams, professor of theology at St. Mellitus College in London, England, sees the Nicene Creed, crafted 1700 years ago, as an extraordinary creative and exciting description of who God is and therefore what we trust in as Christians in God's world.
Jared Ortiz on the Dramatic Nature of the Nicene Creed
Jared Ortiz, professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, describes the Nicene Creed as a dramatic and powerful statement where every word is like a declaration of war, saying yes to the truth and no to many falsehoods.