All God's Children Have Gifts: Disability and worship
How do you recognize each other's gifts and support each other's needs while avoiding a "you're not like us"? attitude? A feature story exploring ways to be inclusive in worship and make room for those with or without special needs.
January 6, 2006
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11 min read
Who You Are Is How You Are Heard: Personality and Personal Ethics in Preaching
The small choices preachers make provide hearers not only with a better understanding of the text, but also with a keen understanding of the preacher.
January 1, 2006
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53 min listen
Preaching in a Postmodern Culture
Christ is the same "yesterday, today, and tomorrow."
January 1, 2006
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46 min listen
The Rhythm of God's Grace
Today's hectic pace of life leaves little time for prayer. Daily morning and evening prayer is an ancient treasure of the church that offers a worshipful way to live and pray, no matter how busy our lives feel. Learn more about this classical mode of prayer and how you can incorporate its wisdom into your daily life.
January 1, 2006
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42 min listen
Symposium 2006 - Conversation with Eugene Peterson
This conversation between spiritual friends explored the art of writing, hospitality, and the pastoral life. Presented at the 2006 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
January 1, 2006
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64 min listen
Testimony as Practice: Implications for Preaching, Worship, and a Christian Way of Life
The way we talk in worship affects the way we talk in the rest of our lives, and vice versa. Worship and daily life are integrally connected—a connection which is fundamental for developing healthy approaches to both worship and preaching.
January 1, 2006
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38 min listen
Worship in the Early Church
Some of the worship practices of early Christians --100-400 A.D.-- were strikingly different but perhaps more biblical than ours today.
January 1, 2006
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54 min listen
Ephesians: A Model of Integral (Holistic) Worship
Paul's letter to the Ephesians demonstrates that worship is an excellent way of expressing the deepest theological teachings and also of integrating them to everyday life. Actually, Ephesians shows that life is an act of worship. This session opened up this compelling book not only for preachers and teachers, but for all who long for a deeper biblical perspective on worship.
January 1, 2006
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43 min listen
Writing Sermons in an Oral Style
The rhetorician James Winans once wrote, "A speech is not merely an essay standing on its hind legs." Yet many speakers—including preachers—write their messages in a style better suited for reading rather than hearing. To be an effective oral communicator, one must learn to write for the ear, not the eye.
January 1, 2006
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25 min listen
Helping People Include People with Disabilities
This workshop provided practical ideas for including persons with disabilities in Sunday School classes, youth groups, and adult small groups, based on the speaker's book of the same title.
January 1, 2006
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47 min listen
Vertical Habits: Missional Churches at Worship
In this workshop for new and emerging, as well as established and evolving congregations, we explored how new Christians and young children learn to relate to God, and what this teaches us about our practices of weekly congregational worship. The workshop featured insights from a number of congregations involved in a new Vertical Habits program hosted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
From Passive to Participative Worship
How engaged are the worshipers in your congregation? Do they tend to function as observers or active participants?
January 1, 2006
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50 min listen
