More ideas on engaging children in worship
Some helpful tips that congregations are using to encourage people of all ages to worship together
Carolyn C. Brown on worship as a true family table
Carolyn C. Brown talks about intergenerational worship. A feature story exploring the inclusion of children in worship.
How Congregations Create Worship Visuals
As Catherine Kapikian and other Christian artists have discovered, understanding the visual arts process is key to creating church imagery that builds community and deepens worship. A feature story exploring how congregations create worship visuals.
What? I Have to Preach the Christmas Story Again?: Fresh approaches to planning
How to plan for the Christmas service.
Moving Toward Preaching Extemporaneously
Preaching extemporaneously, without a manuscript, can enliven delivery and improve communication. This session will explain and demonstrate how to carefully make the transition from text to outline, and then from outline to embodied delivery.
Who You Are Is How You Are Heard: Personality and Personal Ethics in Preaching
The small choices preachers make provide hearers not only with a better understanding of the text, but also with a keen understanding of the preacher.
Testimony as Practice: Implications for Preaching, Worship, and a Christian Way of Life
The way we talk in worship affects the way we talk in the rest of our lives, and vice versa. Worship and daily life are integrally connected—a connection which is fundamental for developing healthy approaches to both worship and preaching.
Global Perspectives on Worship
In this Symposium session, we explore cultural and liturgical issues our brothers and sisters are addressing, especially in Africa and Asia - for example, intergenerational and multicultural worship; use of indigenous songs, instruments, and dance; use of technology; challenges of religious pluralism. We explore how God is building his church in ways that move us all closer to the unity we have in Christ even as we celebrate the gifts of cultural diversity.
Preaching in a Postmodern Culture
Christ is the same "yesterday, today, and tomorrow."
Writing Sermons in an Oral Style
The rhetorician James Winans once wrote, "A speech is not merely an essay standing on its hind legs." Yet many speakers—including preachers—write their messages in a style better suited for reading rather than hearing. To be an effective oral communicator, one must learn to write for the ear, not the eye.
Hearing God's Voice through Change: The preacher's role
As Jesus told the disciples at the Last Supper, in this world we will have trouble. Here's how preaching can encourage believers to take heart. A feature story exploring how congregations can hear God's voice despite change and trials.
Art That Preaches
Call it "the preacher's friend." Certain types of visual art are especially good for helping people worship because they direct attention beyond the artist or artwork to God. A feature story exploring art that preaches.
