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James Abbington

One Hundred Years of Gospel Music in One Hour  (follow link to download audio or video; 58:29)

Harold Best

Resource: Seminar Outline/Working Notes (PDF)

Thinking Theologically About Worship and the Arts (8:07)

The Aesthetic Impulse (27:48)

Musical Process and the Creative Spectrum (30:15)

Absolutes and Relativities in Art (75:48)

Text, Music and Truth (14:37)

Discernment and Appropriateness in Church Music (19:00)

Worship as Continuous Outpouring (24:47)

Manipulation in Worship Music (57:25)

Personal Story: Struggle with Emotional Illness (14:29)

The Arts in Worship (68:14)

Music, Art and Gospel (47:22)

Why Stay Behind When You Can't Catch Up? (16:40)

Local Authenticity and Set-apartness (33:42)

Popular and Mass Culture (15:29)

 

Eric Bolger

Our Hope  (Convocation Sermon; 20:36)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Simon Chan

Seminar: The Liturgy as the Epiphany of the Church

Resource: Seminar Notes

Session 1: The Glorious Church (43:27)

Session 2: The Church as the Communion of the Holy Spirit (49:17)

Session 3: The Church as the Consummation of Creation (45:57)

Session 4: The Liturgy as the Actualization of the Church (47:36)

Session 5: The Liturgy as Theology (57:57)

Session 6: Liturgy as Practice (48:49)

Session 7: The Liturgy as the Means and End of Mission (42:40)

Session 8: The Liturgy as a “Perpetual Pentecost” (42:19)

 

Constance Cherry

Centered Radio: Interview on Worship (22:39)

Resource: The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant
and Biblically Faithful Services

From Passive to Participative Worship (43:17)

Resources: Outline; PowerPoint

Reacting to Light: Some Possible Postures (Convocation Sermon, 17:34)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

The Pledge of Allegiance (Convocation Sermon, 30:46)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

 

Don Davis

Seminar: Sacred Roots: Retrieving the Great Tradition In the Contemporary Church

Resources:

Sacred Roots: A Primer on Retrieving the Great Tradition

Seminar Workbook (over 200 pages of notes, diagrams and resources): available through TUMI

Session 1: Your Kingdom Come: Living Under the Reign of God in an Unchurched World (51:46)

Session 2: Going Back to the Future: Why We Need to Retrieve the Great Tradition (74:28)

Session 3: The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots (57:12)

Session 4: Contextualizing the Story of God in Postmodern Society (56:55)

Session 5: The Great Confession: Living Out a Common Confession and Creedal Theology (65:43)

Session 5b: The Role of Christian Tradition (36:41)

Session 6: His Life In Us: Vital Worship and Spiritual Nurture in the Great Tradition (23:51)

Session 6b: His Life In Us, Part 2 (47:21)

Session 7: Living in the Way: Living the Baptized Life via the Church Year (42:39)

Session 8: Reborn to Serve: Revealing the Rule of God through Our Works and Witness (7:51)

 

Todd Farley

The Embodied Preacher (Streaming video links):

Sermon on Hosea 12:10

The Non-verbal Toolbox of the Preacher

Gestures, Movements and the Preacher's Theatre

 

Stanley Grenz

World Saving Worship-John 4 (President's Choice Address; 38:41)

Darrell A. Harris

A Meditation on Healing (Service of Healing and Eucharist, September 11, 2006; 13:42)

Resource: Report and pictures from the service

Resource: Worship Bulletin

Worship: An Emergency Mandate (12:17)

Excerpts from an April 24, 2007 interview, three days before Bob Webber died (published by the
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship):

Article: Ancient Future Worship

How Robert Webber expanded his view of worship, 5:34

How Robert Webber taught about dying, 5:40

Robert Webber’s favorite worship experience, 4:42

Robert Webber’s personal legacy, 6:21

Chapel Series:

June 2011 Series:

"The Miracle of Being and the Doing of the Miraculous" (73:58)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Divine Being and Doing / Human Being and Doing (Gn 1:26-27; Ex 3:1-15) [9:21]

Chapel 2: In the Image of the Miracle Maker (Ps 136) [14:08]

Chapel 3: Miraculous Hospitality (Jn 2:1-11; 6:1-5) [15:00]

Chapel 4: Miraculous Connection (Jn 6:16-25) [9:09]

Chapel 5: Bad Theology (Jn 5:1-9; 4:43-54; 9:1-41) [14:02]

Chapel 6: Lazarus, Come Forth! (Jn 11:1-44) [12:16]

 

January 2011 Series:

"Renewing Our Vocabulary of Worship" (47:36)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Hallelujah [15:07]

Chapel 2: Hosanna [9:45]

Chapel 3: Selah [12:30]

Chapel 4: Maranatha and Abba [10:12]

 

June 2010 Series:

"The IWS Mission" (68:53)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: The Servant Mandate [12:08]

Chapel 2: Semper Reformanda [11:28]

Chapel 3: The B-I-B-L-E [12:17]

Chapel 4: Making Culture and Making History [11:53]

Chapel 5: Getting 'er Done! [8:10]

Chapel 6: How Sweet It Is! [12:28]

Resource: IWS Mission Statement

January 2010 Series:

"Praying the Psalms" (45:37)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Just Do It (Psalm 103) [7:20]

Chapel 2: Everlasting Love (Psalm 118) [6:05]

Chapel 3: Help.com (Psalms 121 & 123) [7:07]

Chapel 4: Appropriate Fear (Psalm 2) [10:52]

Chapel 5: Bending the Ear of God (Psalm 5) [14:10]

Chapel 6: Don't Worry, Be Happy (Psalm 119:1-24) (not available)

Resource: The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship, by John Witvliet

 

June 2009 Series: "Songs of Assent" (63:51)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above, OR
download the individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Simplicity (Luke 1:26-38) [13:26]

Chapel 2: Receptivity (Luke 1:39-45) [10:30]

Chapel 3: Wisdom (Luke 1:46-55) [8:22]

Chapel 4: Confidence (Luke 2:22-35) [7:50]

Chapel 5: Buoyancy (Jn. 2:1-11) [9:25]

Chapel 6: Getting to Yes (Gn. 1:26-27; Rev. 21:1-5a ) [14:01]

Related link: Songs of Assent, by Carla Waterman

January 2009 Series: "Worship and Service: What God Hath Joined Together" (41:53)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above, OR
download the individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: The Inseparable Acts of Worship and Service (not available)

Chapel 2: Help on Reconnecting the Dots from Jesus and Paul (Mt. 25:35-40; Ro. 12:1-2) [9:58]

Chapel 3: What Do Worship and Service Look Like?--To the Hungry and Thirsty (not available)

Chapel 4: What Do Worship and Service Look Like?--To the Naked and Sick (Gn. 3:8-11) [8:19]

Chapel 5: What Do Worship and Service Look Like?--To the Alien and Prisoner (Is. 61:1-4) [6:38]

Chapel 6: The Dangerous Act of Worship (2 Sam. 24:18-25; Ro. 12:1-2) [16:47]

Related links:

The Advent Conspiracy (YouTube)

The Conduit

June 2008 Series: "Ancient-Future Worship" (85:18)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Why Ancient Future? (Rev. 2:1-7) [9:54]

Chapel 2: The One and the Three (Jn. 4:19-26) [14:48]

Chapel 3: Word and Symbol (Num. 21:4-9) [16:46]

Chapel 4: Declaration and Dialog (Ex. 24:3-8) [14:13]

Chapel 5: Focus In and Focus Out (Jn. 13:34-35; Mt. 28:19-20) [8:45]

Chapel 6: Looking Back and Looking Forward (1 Cor. 11:23-26) [20:46]

January 2008 Series: "Epiphany 08" (72:15)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Finding Your Family (12:34)

Chapel 2: Great Art Won't Always Match Your Couch (11:17)

Chapel 3: The Melchizedek Priest (14:45)

Chapel 4: A Light for the Gentiles (14:01)

Chapel 5: The Great Baptismal Exchange (7:08)

Chapel 6: Saving the Best Till Last (12:27)

"The Ancient-Future Worship Leader" (June 2007 Series; 74:14)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: What Is Ancient-Future Worship? (10:56)

Chapel 2: Jesus: the A-F Worship Leader (13:34)

Chapel 3: A-F Worship Is Always Trinitarian (14:49)

Chapel 4: The Earliest Worship Service (7:52)

Chapel 5: A-F Worship Always Tells a Story (13:49)

Chapel 6: A-F Worship Is Always Participatory (15:01)

"By Water and by Fire" (January 2007 Series; 63:37)

(Download the entire series by clicking on the series title above,
OR download individual talks by clicking on the titles below).

Chapel 1: Burning Bushes (8:26) 

Chapel 2: Be Strong and of Good Courage (8:48)

Chapel 3: Star Fire (12:06)

Chapel 4: Jesus' Baptism (9:35)

Chapel 5: Our Baptism (13:33)

Chapel 6: Owning His Cross (10:48)

"From Bethlehem to Left Behind" (January 2006 Series)

Chapel 1 (15:02)    

Chapel 2 (13:30) 

Chapel 3 (12:34)

Chapel 4 (16:08)    

Chapel 5 (15:30)

Chapel 6 (16:39)

"The Ruinous Work of Pentecost" (June 2006 Series)

Chapel 1: Ruinous Event (14:34)    

Chapel 2: Waiting (11:47)             

Chapel 3: Wind (11:45)                

Chapel 4: Fire (09:48)

Chapel 5: Languages (14:35)

Chapel 6: Sending (17:56)

 

Jim Hart

Ancient Future Worship/Thinking Missionally (25:03)

Resource: Presidential Address Handout

Article (PDF): On Ancient Future Worship

IWS: An Ecclesial Academy (28:21)

Resource: Link for James K. A. Smith book, Desiring the Kingdom

IWS Mission Statement (January 2008; 10:22)

Related Article: Missional Theology of IWS (by Eric Bolger)

Serve or Die (32:19)

Resource: RBC link for Yancey quote

Resource: Amazon link for Labberton's, The Dangerous Act of Worship

That the World May Know

(Jim Hart, Presidential Address, 27:47)

The "So What" of the Great Emergence (25:01)

Resource: Presidential Address Handout

Resource: Talking Points for IWS

 

Patrick Keifert

Reflections on a Day at IWS (16:05)

Resource: Summary of Dr. Keifert's observations

Reggie Kidd

The Cost of the Ancient Future Journey (28:55)

Psalm 22 (21:19)

Resource: The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship

With One Voice (Convocation Sermon, 30:36)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Dan Lee

When I Am Left Alone (Convocation Sermon, 29:54)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Brian McLaren

The Suffering of Servanthood

(Commencement Sermon 2007; 13:45)

Introduction (including Brian's personal story; 18:15)

Onramp to a Postmodern Conversation (46:57)

Resource: PowerPoint Presentation

Q&A-Session 2 (Topics include: borrowing from other traditions; 16:49)

Spiritual Formation in the Emerging Church, Part 1 (41:26)

Resource: PowerPoint Presentation

Q&A-Session 3 (Topics include: Mt. 16:13-"the Son of Man;" 14:40)

Spiritual Formation in the Emerging Church, Part 2 (29:09)

Q&A-Session 4 (Topics include: Newtonian worldview; 10:27)

Public Worship as Spiritual Formation, Part 1 (36:14)

Resource: PowerPoint Presentation

Q&A-Session 5 (Topics include: dealing with criticism & understanding modernity; 39:17)

Link: Basketball concentration exercise

Resource: PowerPoint-Prayer for enemies

Public Worship as Spiritual Formation, Part 2 (36:14)

Q&A-Session 6 (Topic: The Lord's Prayer; 07:33)

Link: McLaren bonus chapter download

Public Worship as Spiritual Formation, Part 3 (56:57)

Global Mission in the Postmodern World (54:40)

Resource: PowerPoint Presentation

Q&A-Last Session (Topic: applying seminar principles in the church; 49:29)

Benediction (3:12)

Resource: Christ Has No Body Here But Ours 

Link: Overview of Brian's books


David Neff

A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future (43:30)

Resource: AEF Call text

Sam Pascoe

Commencement Comments (10:21)

Resource: Commencement Worship Bulletin

Resource: Commencement Bulletin insert

Presidential Panel

Presidential Panel, January 2008: Beholding the Glory: Incarnation through the Arts

(Darrell Harris, Lester Ruth, Jack Van Marian, Rebecca Abbott; 41:05)

Resource: Amazon link for book info

Presidential Panel, June 2007: Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches 

(Eric Bolger, Connie Cherry, Reggie Kidd, and Lester Ruth; 44:42)

Resource: Amazon link

Presidential Panel, January 2007: The Divine Embrace

(Darrell Harris, Andy Hill, Keith Ray, and Carla Waterman; 36:58)

Recource: Amazon link

 

Keith Ray

Worship Without Works is Dead (Convocation Sermon; 27:09)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Lester Ruth

A Rose By Any Other Name: Attempts at Classifying North American Protestant Worship (47:26)

RealPlayerLink

Resource: Article

Don Saliers

Where Do We Go? (Commencement Sermon, 14:14)

Resource: Commencement Worship Bulletin

The Verbal an Non-Verbal Languages of Worship, Part 1 (61:57)

Resource: Notes Handout

The Verbal and Non-Verbal Languages of Worship, Part 2 (43:47)

Seven Christological Images (25:35)

Resource: Crucifixion Images File (PDF)

Worship Come to Its Senses, Part 1 (41:19)

Resource: Notes Handout

Worship Come to Its Senses, Part 2 (35:48)

Singing Our Lives to God, Part 1 (60:01)

Singing Our Lives to God, Part 2 (66:32)

Love Full Grown: Patterns of Public Prayer (49:32)

Four Proposals: Seminar Recapitulation (30:18)

Pastoral Strategies for Worship & Spirituality (27:18)

Resource: What Every Congregation Ought to Know About Worship

 

Vernon Sanders

Here's Looking at You, Kid (Guest Lecture, 38:18)

Dan Sharp

Holy Radiant Light (Phos Hilaron), Alexandre Gretchaninoff (5:32)

(IWS Choral Ensemble, June 2006, Dan Sharp, conductor)

Resource: Recording background

Resource: The Phos Hilaron

 

Bob Stamps

Gathered, Empowered, Sent

(Bob Stamps, Commencement Sermon, 23:44)

Resource: Commencement Worship Bulletin

Worship Seminar: A Sacramental Journey: Remembering Jesus Christ Risen from the Dead

Book Resource: The Sacrament of the Word Made Flesh: The Eucharistic Theology of Thomas F. Torrance

Session 1: Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom: Devotional by Ellen deKroon Stamps (9:14)

Session 1: First Questions: Hungry for More Than Bread (48:16)

Session 2: First Answers: Just a Remembrance (56:19)

Session 3: The Real Answer: From a Vicar, a Book and a College (58:29)

Session 4: Formative Guidelines: God's Banquet on the World's Table (53:15)

Session 5: Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom, Pt. 2: Ellen deKroon Stamps (11:02)

Session 5: Perfect Milieu: Real Presence as Real Encounter (35:28)

Session 6: Frustrating Academy: What Happens to People? (71:49)

Session 7: Imperfect Milieu: The Parish in Which God Shows Up Anyway! (65:04)

Session 8: The Goal: Old Wineskins Made New (39:21)

 

Rob Still

It's All About Me: The Bob Webber Narcissistic Un-Worship Song (2:04)

Resource: It's All About Me (lyrics)

Resource: It's All About Me (lead sheet)

Phyllis Tickle

Ascension People (Commencement Sermon, 11:22)

Resource: Commencement Worship Bulletin

Every 500 Years, A Rummage Sale--Part 1 (46:43)

Resource: Bibliography

Q&A (Topics: Atonement theology and 1st and 21st century similarities; 13:09)

Every 500 Years, A Rummage Sale--Part 2 (68:36)

Q&A (Topic: Constantine and Post-Christendom; 2:42)

Every 500 Years, A Rummage Sale--Part 3 (72:34)

The Great Emergence (27:05)

Emergence Christianity, Part 1 (57:56)

Emergence Christianity, Part 2 (42:30)

Cyber Church (22:45)

Examples of Emergence Ministries (28:02)

Missions: The Un-churched, Non-churched, and De-churched (06:28)

Q&A 3 (Topics include Pitfalls of Emergence Movement; 64:05)

 

Mark Torgerson

Embracing Our Heritage: Appreciating and Maximizing our Environments for Worship and Ministry

Resource: Presentation handout

Book link: An Architecture on Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today

Jack Van Marion

Keep On Singing (Convocation Sermon, 23:42)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

What's that Noise?

(Jack Van Marion, Convocation Sermon, 26:29)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Kent Walters

Introducing the IWS Alumni Association (7:58)

Carla Waterman

Series: "The Seven Deadly Sins" (Judson University Chapel, March 2008)

Pride (22:36)

Greed (15:51) 

Envy (14:14)

Lust (22:56)

Anger (25:07)

Sloth (23:23)

Well-watered Worship (Convocation Sermon, 23:39)

 

Robert Webber

 A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future (34:01)

Resources: How to Read an Academic Book / President's Lecture handout

Related Link: The Future Lies in the Past: Why Evangelicals are Connecting with the Early Church (CT, Feb. 2008)

Ancient-Future Evangelism (34:21)

Catechumenate Across the Curriculum (27:09)

Resource: Presidential Address handout

Commencement Welcome and Remarks (11:37)

Resource: Commencement Worship Bulletin

Resource: Commencement Bulletin insert

First IWS Commencement Address (June 2002; 9:30)

How Do You Welcome the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for the Life of the World? (30:41)

Resource: Presidential Address Outline

Resource: Easter Vigil Order of Worship

Introduction to "Thirty Days of Worship Discovery" (With Pastor Joel Kruggel of Harbert Community

Church, September 10, 2006; 3:38)

Mystical Theology (38:21)

Resource: Presidential Address Outline

God's Story and Mine (Lk. 24:13-49) (G.R. Theological Seminary, September 16, 2005; 19:47)

Who Gets to Narrate the World?  (Bethany Beach Tabernacle, August 13, 2006; 38:24)

Worship Does God's Story (Harbert Community Church, September 10, 2006; 36:06)

 

Luder Whitlock

Heavenly Worship (Convocation Sermon; 19:15)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Greg Wilde

How to Avoid Limiting God With Words (Convocation Sermon; 39:11)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Resource: Sermon script

 

John D. Witvliet

A Rembrandtesque Epiphany (Convocation Sermon, 22:54)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Seminar: The Beauty and Glory of the Triune God: Grounding Worship in the Doctrine of God

The Joy of Resisting Idolatry in Worship (46:23)

Competing Conceptions of Divine Glory, Part 1 (47:35)

Competing Conceptions of Divine Glory, Part 2 (29:14)

Under the Shadow of God's Wings and Other Psalmic Visions (25:11)

The God of Promise and the Shaping of Covenantal Worship (37:48)

Five Ways that Worship is Trinitarian, Part 1 (40:23)

Five Ways that Worship is Trinitarian, Part 2 (40:22)

Five Ways that Worship is Trinitarian, Part 3 (20:04)

Trinitarian Integration (21:24)

A More Complete Pneumatology (8:45)

Resisting Idolatry Through Paradox (18:05)

Brief Excursus on Systematic Theology and Worship: "Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi" (12:24

 

 

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