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A sample service plan from the Calvin Symposium on Worship planned around the theme, "The Transforming Power of Prayer."

While directing student-planned and -led worship services at Calvin College and Fuller Theological Seminary, or while leading worship workshops, Ron Rienstra has sometimes met “worship leaders who get frustrated with other people’s desire to plan carefully. Those frustrated have not themselves yet done much worship leading.”

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Vesper

At the 2022 Symposium on Worship, the sermons in our worship services will reflect on Jesus’ famous words, pondering what they meant to those who first heard them and what they still mean for us today as we navigate a complex world in our efforts to live like Jesus.

This sermon explores how Psalm 32 is a well-known Psalm for its pointed expression of the experience of guilt, its humble confession, and its joyful expression of peace that comes through being pardoned.

We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is using music and worship to overcome the legacy of "the Trouble" in Northern Ireland. You can apply their insights to political and other differences that divide Christians in your context. A feature story exploring the role of music and worship in healing.

Jesus' call to discipleship in Matthew 16:24 forms the heart and structure of this sample worship service plan.

A worship service of music and prayer structured around and informed by the Lord's Prayer and the Heidelberg Catechism.

Joel Stamoolis acknowledges it was challenging to help his church sing through the entire Psalter. But during 171 consecutive Sundays of doing so, he gathered a wealth of tips and resources. You can use them to help your congregation begin singing more psalms in worship.