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Spoken transitions in a worship service
An edited video interview with Elizabeth Dias of TIME Magazine
This choral reading on Luke 15 with a sung refrain is adapted for 4 readers and 1 vocalist.
This Bible study with 12 lessons focuses on key themes in understanding Christian worship and is designed for use by a worship planning team/committee.
This Bible study with 12 lessons focuses on the key elements of Christian worship and is designed for use by a worship planning team/committee.
Fruit of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is a worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Colloquium in June 2014.
Download the 4:3 projection slides from the 2014 Vital Worship Grants Colloquium evening worship "Fruit of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." There is a slide for each element of the service.
The full text of the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture.
Whether you want to go simple or elaborate with these photo ideas, you can follow three steps to get people talking about worship and faithful living.
Two ideas borrowed from visual sociology researchers—photo elicitation and photovoice—are helping Christians and congregations picture their lived experiences with God.
Roman Williams is a former pastor and church planter who now teaches sociology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He specializes in using visual methods to research the sociology of religion.
Praying for the worldwide church was a priority at the 2014 Calvin Symposium on Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leaders from many nations described how to pray for their churches and fellow citizens. Three of them, all Presbyterian pastors, also gave brief interviews.
