Engaging Culture, Enriching Worship
This short video outlines the four main themes of the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture developed by the Lutheran World Federation. The video also touches on three meanings of the term "worship."
Confessional Resources Index
An index that displays connections between several confessional resources and the hymnal, Lift Up Your Hearts.
Words to Grow Into: The Psalms as Formative Speech
An excerpt taken from Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship, written by John D. Witvliet.
Protestant Latino Worship Practices Resource Guide
interviews with a variety of Protestant North American Latino worship leaders, musicians, and pastors, presented in both Spanish with English translation.
Gerardo Marti on Emerging Churches and Religious Individualism
Gerardo Marti, professor of sociology at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, is fascinated by diversity and innovation as aspects of how the world is changing and how that affects churches today.
Gerardo Marti on Emerging Church Demographics
After writing three books about multicultural worship, Gerardo Marti has applied his research skills to what’s been called the emerging church or emergent Christianity.
Lift Up Your Hearts: Revised Common Lectionary Index
Lectionary-based hymn suggestions
Juan Romero on what is the concept that God has for you
There was a torrential rain on the night of May 10, 1936 in Monterrey, Mexico. “Juanito,” the subject of our interview, was barely seven years old.
Ericson Alexander Molano: God Moves in the Midst of Praise and Worship
Integrity, humility and passion are some of the virtues that describe this young Colombian who grew up in the midst of mission trips, Bible studies and worship services due to his parent’s pastoral work.
Tony Perez on the Silence of God
Although Tony Perez was born in a Christian home in his Guatemalan homeland, it wasn’t until he was 22 that he had a personal encounter with the Lord, in a small church in the city of Huntington Park, California.
Luis Enrique Espinosa on Commercialization generates music with “massage” instead of message.
Thousands of young people have been challenged and motivated thanks to the ministry of “New Generation”, which Luis Enrique Espinosa and his wife Nilda founded more than a decade ago.
Doris Machin: "It is not one’s gender but one’s heart that defines one’s work in the Lord"
Doris Machin has sung before many different audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.