All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Book Signing Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Online Discussion Podcast Prayer Reflection Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Christian Year Daily Prayer/Reflection Dance Drama Grants Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Worship Language Arts/Words Music Preaching Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Teaching Technology Visual Arts Worshipers Worship- Leading Worship- Meaning of Worship- Planning Worship- Preparing for Occasion All Funerals Symposium Resources War Lessons and Carols Ascension Hymn Festival Advent Weddings Weekday Services Epiphany Natural Disasters Pentecost Teaching Worship Commissionings Thanksgiving Easter Christ the King Christmas Healing Services Anniversaries Taize Ordination/Installation Heidelberg Catechism Summer Passion Week Lent Dedications Search results 1 - 20 of 32 Sort by: Title | Date Artie Lindsay on Working as One Church in the Neighborhood Artie Lindsay is the teaching pastor at Tabernacle Community Church, a multiracial congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this edited conversation, he talks about the joys and challenges of serving the Alger Heights neighborhood. Conversation | March 20, 2023 Hymns for a Pandemic: A Brief Historical Introduction 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. Resource Guide | May 05, 2020 Constance Cherry on Small Church Worship and Identity Small churches sometimes feel weak or irrelevant. Intentional worship practices can help them discover their value before God and to the community. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Constance Cherry on Competing Metaphors for Worship Most churches measure worship services against a certain ideal. They may think of worship like a concert, entertainment, dialogue, or something else. Even if they have not consciously chosen an operating metaphor for worship, their pattern greatly influences how individuals and congregations live out their faith. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Learning to Worship for the Life of the World For the Life of the World is one of the most influential books ever written on the sacraments. Audio | February 29, 2016 Worship and Discipleship: As It Was…Is…and Shall Be Nine church leaders and scholars recall and predict hot topics in worship, discipleship and discernment from 1995 to 2025. Feature Story | May 05, 2015 How to Use Photos to Spark Worship Conversations Whether you want to go simple or elaborate with these photo ideas, you can follow three steps to get people talking about worship and faithful living. Feature Story | June 06, 2014 Visualizing Worship: Sparking conversations about worship and life Two ideas borrowed from visual sociology researchers—photo elicitation and photovoice—are helping Christians and congregations picture their lived experiences with God. Feature Story | June 06, 2014 Roman Williams on Peeling Back Layers of Meaning in Church Life Roman Williams is a former pastor and church planter who now teaches sociology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He specializes in using visual methods to research the sociology of religion. Conversation | June 05, 2014 Green Congregations Become Centers of Creation Care and Renewal As more churches include creation care in congregational life, all ages experience hope and joy. They start to see how God has gifted their church with specific callings and resources to protect the earth so that all may flourish. Feature Story | October 09, 2013 Worship in the Season of Creation and Earth-Themed Sundays Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays. Feature Story | September 12, 2013 Green Congregations Celebrate God’s New Creation in Worship Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us. Feature Story | September 12, 2013 Bob Waldrop on How Earth Care Led Him to God In this edited conversation, based on emails and an April 2013 phone conversation, Bob Waldorp explains how his church work and activism fit together. Conversation | July 11, 2013 Visiting Scholars Connect Worship and Life Academic study can be a deep resource used to strengthen faith and ministry. It gives us language and frameworks to respectfully discuss vexing worship issues. Feature Story | June 17, 2013 Visiting Scholars Resources You Can Use Calvin Institute of Christian Worship visiting scholars have produced resources you can use in church, small group, and classroom settings. Feature Story | June 17, 2013 Erin DeYoung on Teaching Worship in Christian High School Music Classes Erin DeYoung teaches orchestra at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, Michigan. Her students helped lead worship at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on Worship. Conversation | May 01, 2013 Symposium 2008 - Plenary Address by Dallas Willard A plenary address by Dallas Willard at the 2008 Symposium on Worship. Audio | March 01, 2013 Randy Weener on Multisensory Worship that Welcomes Neighbors Randy Weener co-leads Wyoming Kingdom Enterprise Zone, a church multiplication initiative by Reformed and Christian Reformed churches in Wyoming, Michigan. In 2000 he planted a Reformed Church in America congregation in Allendale, Michigan. In this edited conversation, he talks about multisensory worship in that congregation that welcomes neighbors. Conversation | September 12, 2012 How Churches Meet Their Neighbors Here is the uncomfortable truth about becoming a congregation that loves your neighbors as you love yourselves: You have to go out and meet them. Feature Story | September 12, 2012 Becoming Churches that Love Our Neighbors as Ourselves Representing the love of God to neighbors works best in congregations that have a clear vision reflected in worship and prayer. Feature Story | September 12, 2012 1 2 Next »