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Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts.

Five services of lessons and carols that sing about how we wait patiently for God, the healer of our every ill.

A Candlelight service plan recalling the appearance of the angels, their song to the shepherds and the shepherds' response as they went to Bethlehem, part of an Advent series focused on the tension between the message that "Christ has come" and "not all is yet accomplished."

Martin Tel is C. F. Seabrook Director of Music at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Here he talks about the forthcoming Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship, which is one of the most comprehensive resources ever published on using the Psalms in Christian worship. Tel collaborated with Joyce Borger and John D. Witvliet on this psalter.

A index of handbell music written to accompany different songs found in Sing! A New Creation.

A service plan remembering Moses, Miriam and the people of Israel and giving praise and thanks to God for his miraculous delivery through the Red Sea. The spirit is thankful celebration for God's actions on our behalf. Part of an Advent series focused on the tension between the message that "Christ has come" and "not all is yet accomplished."

The Genevan Psalter is the most important source of metrical psalmody in the continental Reformed tradition.

A service plan based on Psalm 8:5-8 and Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 calling out the need for human beings made in the image of God to have purpose and excitement in their work in a series focused on vocation and how our faith and our work are integrated.

God’s Word is alive and active in Pakistan.

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Vesper