Praying and Leading with the Psalms
This workshop offers ideas and activities, many of which have been used with junior high, high school, and college youth, for working with the psalms in small groups or educational settings to prepare pieces that can help lead worship or devotional study.
Worship and Discipleship: Unresolved Questions in Contemporary Ministry
This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.
What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan
Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.
Sacred Time, Holy Ground: Christian Worship and the Practices of Daily Life
Plenary session delivered by Dorothy Bass.
Outward-Faced Worship
Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?
Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
Jerry Sittser on Growing through Adversity and Spiritual Practices
You probably gather for worship with both lifelong worshipers and those new to the Bible. Jerry Sittser mines the history of Christian spirituality for nuggets that give life to all levels of worshipers.
So You've Been Asked to Plan Worship
This article describes the role of the worship planner and provides suggestions for worship planning in a wide range of churches and worshiping communities.
What Makes All Ages Delight in the Psalms
The learning went both ways when two school communities decided to “dwell in the Psalms” for a year. Their Psalms-based creations revealed that the Spirit can work through kids and adults of any age to nourish faith.
Kathy Hanson on Youth Delivering Homilies
Usually teachers give the homily during daily worship at Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey. When the school asked every eighth grader to give a homily, the results surprised and blessed the whole community.
More Inclusion = Deeply Meaningful Worship
The lessons learned at two seminaries that renewed their chapel worship services can make a big difference in your congregation.
Musician Sally Ann Morris on Seminarians Learning Worship
Sally Ann Morris is the chapel musician at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She’s involved with each of Wake Div’s twice-weekly, 45-minute chapel services.
