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A short weekday or chapel service for the season of Advent

Maybe you have been moved by the power of enacted scripture dramas at a Calvin Symposium on Worship. Now you can learn from Jon DeVries how to create them.

A worship service held at Worship Symposium 2017

One significant element of worship renewal in our generation is that congregations are finding their voices. Previously, most worshipers were silent in worship, except when they participated in congregational singing. Increasingly, worshipers use their voices in worship for spoken expressions in addition to songs.

A weekday chapel service focusing on the transformation of fear into faith.

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word & Table

A list of presenters from the 2016 Symposium on Worship

Our everlasting God “who was, and is, and is to come” is not bound by time (Revelation 1:8). God can answer prayer in an instant but often chooses to work over the course of generations. Indeed, the promised Messiah came from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through descendants like David and Mary, and even foreigners like Ruth. Still today, while Jesus has already defeated Satan and conquered death, we know that the full manifestation of God’s peaceable kingdom is yet to come.

This Bible Study explores the questions: What really is worship? And what is the unique perspective that the Reformed faith can bring to our thinking about worship?

Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.