I had the honor and privilege of speaking at Johnson University’s chapel service on October 11. Continuing their series titled “Because of Your Participation in the Gospel,” I addressed how we can intensify our participation in the Gospel by partaking of the Eucharistic body of Christ in order to become the ecclesial body of Christ,...Read More
Creston Groover has learned to plan worship services with a much greater degree of intentionality behind them — to the benefit of his congregation.Read More
Here is the Presidential Address from the June 2018 on-campus intensive session. This talk addresses a way of understanding beauty that can transform the way we approach worship and worship renewal.Read More
Dr. Kidd unpacks the implications of the Gospel, including a special application for those planning worship, in this sermon from the Opening Convocation of the June 2018 on-campus intensive session.Read More
“The most effective attainment of theological application comes through an enthusiastic embrace of objective beauty, because that is also who God is, the manifestation of infinite beauty.” Dr. Jim Hart addresses the IWS community on the subject of beauty in worship, guided by the eminent theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.Read More
Here are the scripture presentations for the January 2018 chapel sessions, with the exception of the very first (Thursday, January 4) which we do not have a recording of. They feature tableau, Reader’s Theatre, liturgical dance, and other elements not to enhance the scriptures but rather to help them by the Holy Spirit come to...Read More
