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These resources focus on PTSD as a result of combat or military exposure. Many voices are calling for the church to be a significant partner in the complex readjustment process of returning home.

To study and respond to the Psalms through prayer and jazz music in both corporate worship and small groups during the entire year.

This resource guide for Ordinary Time includes sermon ideas, worship songs and hymns, visual arts, and readings to help you plan “ordinary” worship—times in the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. The season’s liturgical color is green, symbolizing a time of growth in the Christian life. This guide also includes ideas for worship on Christ the King Sunday, Thanksgiving, and All Saints’ Day/Reformation Sunday.

To explore the Psalms with children, youth and families through art, music and memorizing Scripture to shape a posture of hope and give words to express doubts, questions and fears.

The three-year grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will support further work in grantmaking, resource development, and formative learning events.

Christian traditions refer to the prayer before communion as the eucharistic prayer, the Great Thanksgiving, or the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving. If your Lord’s Suppers don’t include this prayer, then you very well may be missing out on a rich opportunity for faith formation.

First worship service in a collection of building blocks for a series of worship services based on key themes from the Belhar Confession

To engage the congregation in a study of the Psalms and Vertical Habits as a framework for worship throughout the liturgical year and to create visual arts and language that will remind the congregation that worship is a dialogue with God that can be carried into their daily lives.

John D. Witvliet is senior scholar and program advisor for university missional initiatives at Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, with a faculty appointment as professor of theology, worship and the arts.

You don’t need a large choir, paid staff, or huge budget to plan music for worship in your small congregation.