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Incorporating Faith and Work into the Worship Service

How do we help people connect their faith to their work in our worship services? For many Christians, bringing faith into the workplace falls into two main categories—evangelism and ethics.

March 3, 2016
Children and Worship

With a new frontier of research on children's spirituality, research as well as experience is showing churches that creating a sacred space for children, where they can encounter the living God, is vital for their faith formation.

March 2, 2016 | 52 min listen
Psalms From the Soul

Explore musical settings of the biblical Psalms shaped by a black gospel idiom, the power of call-and-response approaches to singing, and a deep commitment to engage the full congregation in singing as prompted by soloists or choirs.

March 2, 2016

¡Le pidieron orar en el culto!

Consejos para ayudar a quienes se preparan para conducir la oración en el culto. Incluye descripciones sobre diferentes tipos de oraciones, sugerencias sobre cómo prepararse para orar en voz alta, y directrices para liderar la oración durante el culto.

February 26, 2016 | 1 min read

¡Le pidieron desarrollar un grupo de adoración!

Este material ofrece ayudas prácticas para la formación de equipos de adoración con una estructura contemporánea, centrándose en cuestiones generales tales como las funciones de los integrantes del grupo y el orden de culto.

February 19, 2016 | 1 min read
Jennifer Ackerman on Courageous Conversations among Pastors

The Micah Groups program brings together pastors from diverse denominational, theological and ethnic contexts, all who desire to become empowered wise preachers. They seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Over time, they build enough trust to have courageous conversations about worship, preaching and justice.

February 19, 2016 | 5 min read
2016 Symposium on Worship slideshow

Photos from the 2016 conference at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary

February 17, 2016 | 1 min read

Symposium 2016 Presenters

A list of presenters from the 2016 Symposium on Worship

February 11, 2016 | 26 min read
How Ritual Training Overflows into Expressive Worship

Lay training in both formative and expressive liturgy helps Catholic adults and youth live out their identity in the universal priesthood of all faithful believers. Protestants can learn from this.

February 9, 2016 | 9 min read