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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

Constance Cherry

From Passive to Participative Worship (43:17)

Resources: Outline; PowerPoint

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

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

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 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

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 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 Mission Statement (January 2008; 10:22)

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

 

Patrick Keifert

Reflections on a Day at IWS (16:05)

Resource: Summary of Dr. Keifert's observations

Reggie Kidd

With One Voice (Convocation Sermon, 30:36)

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Psalm 22 (21:19)

Resource: The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship

 

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 an 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

 

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)

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

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)

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)

 

Greg Wilde

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

Resource: Convocation Worship Bulletin

Resource: Sermon script

 
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