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A sample service from the Calvin Symposium on Worship planned around Psalm 130, a psalm of confession.
A service plan focusing on Lord's Day 1 of the Heidelberg Catechism and the comfort and assurance we find only through Jesus Christ on a series on the Heidelberg Catechism.
A worship service plan focused on the church as a group of believers who are forged together as a "team" by the Holy Spirit.
The first weekday service plan in a series on Hebrews, focusing on Jesus Christ as the Great High Priest who mediates the New Covenant.
A service plan focused on the paradox in our prayer life. The Bible tells us that God answers prayer, yet we often experience doubts about that in our own prayer life. Part of a series of sermons pairing together some of the seemingly irreconcilable paradoxes in the Christian faith.
A service plan for Lent from Psalm 118 focused on thanking God for his deliverance in a Lenten series on the Psalms.
A communion worship service originally held at the Calvin Symposium on Worship, planned around Hebrews 13. The last of a six-part series on the book of Hebrews from the 2008 Symposium on Worship. These services are designed to rejuvenate the vigor of the faithful by returning us to our first love: our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ.
An Advent service plan focused on the way God lovingly chastens us that our barrenness may give way to fertility and productivity in a series on Micah and the hope that he pronounced.
A service plan from the Apostles' Creed focused on Christ's Ascension into heaven and how that benefits Christians in a series on the Apostles' Creed as explained in the Heidelberg Catechism.
A service plan for Lent focused on the trial of Christ that took place immediately after his arrest and the suffering of Christ at the hands of an angry society-for us, part of a Lenten series following specific events that led up to Christ's death and resurrection.
An index of web resources for planning worship during times of war, as well as a short bibliography.
A service plan focused on the Beatitudes and the blessing on those who are persecuted in a series on the Beatitudes.
