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In Worship Words, Debra and Ron Rienstra show why and how to give more attention to your church's worship language.

Focusing on simple phrases helps develop worship habits that affect our whole lives. Vertical habits expand how people talk with God during church worship and school chapels. A feature story exploring relational words that expand worship language.

Worship can change lives when people understand what they are doing and why. Carefully chosen words help frame classic worship elements so gathered congregants are sent out to embody God’s grace, mercy, and peace.

How we describe realities matter, and, the words and images we use matter much. Our language not only describes a given reality, but in some ways, also designs it.

This hymnal gives a common voice to our worship in the twenty-first century and includes a balanced diet of 900+songs, including 400+ classic hymns 200+ living poets and composers represented 150 Psalms represented 30+ countries represented 30+ languages represented, including 12 languages for the Old Hundredth multiple songs from Wesley and Watts, Taize and Iona, Haugen and Haas, Getty and Tomlin, Smallwood and Houghton, CCLI and OneLicense, and more... plus multiple prayers, lit

As worshipers move from one element of the service to the next, they need help to understand what they are doing and why. Verbal transitions help them stick with the worship dialogue between God and gathered people.

In 2006, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship commissioned 23 congregations and schools to explore the theme of Vertical Habits, to learn how the words we use in our relationships also shape our worship.

Vertical Habits is a name given to the process of connecting words used in our relationship with people with words used to express these emotions to God. The biblical Psalms are the foundational mentor and guide in this vocabulary and grammar for worship.

Words have great significance. They both form and inform us. They convey meaning and shape understanding. They express our highest thoughts and our deepest emotions. But because of their ubiquity, words are easily taken for granted. In Worship Words, the third volume in the Engaging Worship series, English professor Debra Rienstra and pastor/worship leader Ron Rienstra make a careful examination of the role and use of language in the worship practices of the church.

A Maundy Thursday or Good Friday service in a Lenton series reflecting on the death of our Savior.