Your First Steps in Ethnodoxology
Here are several possible first steps to learn more about ethnodoxology.
February 14, 2012
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5 min read
Design Guidelines for Church Renovations
As you begin thinking about why and how to renovate your church, consider gathering a group to talk through these priorities and discussion questions.
February 14, 2012
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4 min read
Bibliography - Text and Image in Bible Study
After the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship published Dwelling with Philippians with Eerdmans in 2010, many church Bible study groups studied Philippians using this book as a resource, and have asked for more suggestions similar to Dwelling. Though there are few available on specific books of the Bible, this bibliography is an invitation to biblical study through image and word, each with a different approach.
February 14, 2012
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3 min read
Worship Ideas From Around the World
So how do you move worshipers to prayerful oneness of purpose? Here are some suggestions from around the world.
February 14, 2012
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3 min read
Symposium 2012 Photo Slideshow
A slideshow of images from the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship, held January 26-28, 2012. The annual Calvin Symposium on Worship is an annual, three-day ecumenical conference that brings together a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders and planners, artists, musicians, scholars, students, and other interested worshipers. This year, the symposium explored praying and worshiping through the Psalms.
February 13, 2012
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1 min read
Church Offerings as Acts of Worship
How can worshipers understand the congregational offering as a response to God’s grace and a way to join God’s reconciling work in the world?
February 3, 2012
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6 min read
Rick Blunt on Connecting Church Offerings to Grateful Living
A conversation on the use of connection cards, cards that allow people to respond to the sermon with service.
February 3, 2012
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3 min read
Worship Service: Psalm 113
This service of Psalm 113, Exalted Over All the Nations, was part of the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2012. Utilizing leaders from around the world, the service echoed the words "Praise the Lord, all you nations: all peoples, praise the Lord."
January 28, 2012
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66 min video
Communion Service: Psalm 103
Abounding in Steadfast Love, Psalm 103, was part of the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2012. This service was a celebration of word and sacrament with Thomas G. Long, Martha Moore-Keish, and Stanley Mast.
January 28, 2012
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86 min video
Rethinking Christian Community and Worship in a Global and Post Modern Context
How do we create an environment for worship that builds genuine community among those with no or perhaps with negative, experiences of “church”?
January 28, 2012
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59 min video
Worship Practices in the Hispanic Culture
We will explore some of the distinctiveness of worship in Hispanic Churches in USA. There will be a discussion of the characteristics of the Latino culture and its implications on the way worship is conducted in these communities.
January 28, 2012
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62 min video
Worshiping in a Multicultural Environment
A multicultural, multilingual congregation is one that reflects the diversity of God’s kingdom, but also the complexities of life together this side of eternity. Having a way of understanding and interpreting the differences among us makes it possible to anticipate the worship described in the Revelation vision.
January 27, 2012
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57 min listen
