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Find practical resources and scholarly works for congregational leaders, pastors, scholars, students, artists, and all interested in worship.
Learn about the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program, designed to foster, strengthen and sustain well-grounded worship.
Find conferences, summer seminars, and other events covering a variety of engaging topics.
Read our mission statement, key commitments, and other important values in the range and scope of our programming.
From “I’ll Fly Away” to “You Know My Name,” gospel music over the generations has helped musicians, choirs, and congregations embody faith in God’s promises and provisions. Nate Glasper describes how gospel music’s main genres comprise “academic, theological, historical, and cultural scholarship expressed through sound.”
This list of Lenten art, music, devotions, liturgies, books, and sermons will help you plan worship for Lent and includes resources for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday.
This conference offers opportunities to learn from guest speakers, musicians, and artists and participate in a psalm festival worship service and other times of prayer and reflection.
Applications are open for the Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program to support and enhance Christian worship practices. The upcoming application deadline is April 25, 2026.
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The search committee for the next Executive Director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship requests your support in identifying and selecting the institute's next leader. Please see the opportunity profile.
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Esta serie de sermones presentan una reflexión sobre la Cuaresma en el calendario litúrgico cristiano, destacando este tiempo como una oportunidad para el autoexamen, la reflexión y el retorno a Dios. Se enfatiza la importancia de reconocer nuestras faltas para crecer espiritualmente y se han seleccionado seis salmos que nos ofrecen una guía durante este periodo, con especial atención al salmo 51 para el Miércoles de Ceniza.
You are invited to join the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) in a year of dwelling in the Psalms—the prayerbook and songbook of the Bible. Together, the 150 psalms guide Christian worshipers through the full range of human emotions and experiences, making space for communities to practice praise and lament, to ask questions and find words of comfort, and so much more. Our work at CICW over the years has connected us to many people engaging in thoughtful and imaginative work around the psalms. We are eager to build on those connections and encourage more new and ancient ways to dwell in the psalms.
Universal design and Vertical Habits help create church worship that touches all our senses and is accessible to all worshipers.
Esta serie de sermones presentan una reflexión sobre la Cuaresma en el calendario litúrgico cristiano, destacando este tiempo como una oportunidad para el autoexamen, la reflexión y el retorno a Dios. Se enfatiza la importancia de reconocer nuestras faltas para crecer espiritualmente y se han seleccionado seis salmos que nos ofrecen una guía durante este periodo, con especial atención al salmo 51 para el Miércoles de Ceniza.
You are invited to join the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) in a year of dwelling in the Psalms—the prayerbook and songbook of the Bible. Together, the 150 psalms guide Christian worshipers through the full range of human emotions and experiences, making space for communities to practice praise and lament, to ask questions and find words of comfort, and so much more. Our work at CICW over the years has connected us to many people engaging in thoughtful and imaginative work around the psalms. We are eager to build on those connections and encourage more new and ancient ways to dwell in the psalms.
Universal design and Vertical Habits help create church worship that touches all our senses and is accessible to all worshipers.
Directing a gospel choir can help singers express their own culture or learn from other cultures. Nate Glasper shares tips for helping gospel choir members grow through mentorship and skillful directing so that they live a lifestyle of worship.
