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Want to help your community spend more time with the psalms? With so many resources to choose from, how do you find the right ones for your context? The team at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) is here to help. We keep this page updated with our top recommendations. 

Eyes are for seeing. Good eyes can see well; bad eyes, less well; blind eyes, not at all.

In a world filled with violence, injustice, and despair, the Advent and Christmas gospel comes, wondrously, with two strands of promise: one that touches neighborhoods racked in violence, one that is as intimate as our own interior lives, so often hidden from everyone but God. Both strands of promise are conveyed in a single common word with breathtaking scope: “Peace.”

To design a new baptismal font through a collaborative process of artistic and educational engagement around the significance of baptism.

In this episode, Juana Bordas talks about the power of leadership when each person, culture and community can contribute equally and show respect for all, and how leaders who embrace gratitude and forgiveness offer their communities hope for the future.  

Representing the love of God to neighbors works best in congregations that have a clear vision reflected in worship and prayer.

To engage in a year long renewal of God's promises in baptism and the book of Revelation through sermons, Bible studies, liturgy and education that will culminate with the Easter Vigil.

A service plan focused on responses and emotions in worship. Our faith gives us reason for great joy, but we also experience much pain and sorrow in this world. Part of a series of sermons pairing together some of the seemingly irreconcilable paradoxes in the Christian faith.

This Bible study explores the sacrament of Communion.

Our position in Christ calls and obligates us to have the mind of Christ, to be as selfless as he was for the sake of and service to others.