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To incorporate the worshipping community in worship planning by creating a collaborative process for sermon development that includes learning the role of the sermon, reflecting critically on current practices, and taking part in the process of developing the sermon.

A service plan from the Apostles' Creed focused on the physical resurrection of Christ from the dead in a series on the Apostles' Creed as explained in the Heidelberg Catechism.

Looking at today’s North American cultural climate, Alyce McKenzie reflects on what it’s time to let go of in preaching and in the teaching of preaching—and what it’s time to grab hold of.

In conjunction with the 2022 Calvin Symposium on Worship, CICW is sponsoring discussion groups this winter on two recent publications. Invite at least 3 other people to gather and discuss one of two featured books by Tish Harrison Warren and Rebekah Eklund. All participants will receive a copy of their selected text. Host applications are due Monday, December 20, 2021 at 12:00 noon, EST.

Psalm 37 is an acrostic psalm with twenty-two sections built on each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This musical setting follows that pattern, with twenty-two “songlets.” The last four measures of each songlet can be sung in counterpoint to the first four measures of the next, creating a twenty-two-link musical chain.

A sample Taize service plan.

Centuries before 2020’s novel coronavirus, COVID-19, Christians around the world responded to plagues, pandemics, uncertainty, and sin with faith in God’s presence and care—a faith expressed in many theologically rich hymns that can remind modern believers of God’s faithfulness.

An essential aspect of the Christian life is listening to and obeying God's word.

A service plan for Easter planned around Mark 16:3. This service is part of "Questions of the Last Week," a series of Lent service plans.

A service plan from Lord's Day 7 of the Heidelberg Catechism focused on the importance of true faith, which grafts us into Christ and provides all his benefits for us, part of a series on the Heidelberg Catechism. This service ends in celebration of the Lord's Supper.