Isaac Wardell – Fall 2012 – Contemporary Worship Mistakes (Baylor Chapel Service)
Isaac Wardell lectures in Baylor Chapel on the mistakes of contemporary Christian worship.
Rob Hewell – The Worship Leader: Theological Identity & Spiritual Formation (BNG Conference 2012)
A presentation by Rob Hewell and discussion led by Tony Cunha on “The Worship Leader: Theological Identity and Spiritual Formation”…
Martha Hicks – Cultivating an Interest in Music and Worship (BNG Conference 2012)
A presentation by Martha Hicks and discussion led by Al Miller on “Cultivating an Interest in Music and Worship: Engaging Majors and Non-majors in the…
Leonard Sweet – Giving Blood: The Art and Craft of Interactive Preaching (2012 Alleluia Conference)
What kind of communication style best resonates in a TGiF world (Twitter, Google, iPads/Phones, Facebook)? Is it deductive, inductive, abductive, or something else? Len will introduce that something else in this session.
Leonard Sweet – Communicating in the Language of the Culture (2012 Alleluia Conference)
http://edge.baylor.edu/media/183554/183554-audio.mp3 Location: Truett Seminary, Baylor University – Waco, Texas....
Leonard Sweet – Using Social Media in Worship and the Role of the VJ (2012 Alleluia Conference)
Len was the first to use a live internet feed and a vj as part of a sermon. Learn how to continue to pioneer uses of social media in worship.
Leonard Sweet – Moving Ministry from Performance Models to Participation Models (2012 Alleluia Conference)
There is a new standard of excellence: not the quality of the performance, but the quality of the participation. This session will help you make the shift from a ?performance artist? to what Len calls a ?participation artist.?
Leonard Sweet – EPIC Worship (2012 Alleluia Conference)
Every culture has an interface. This session explores the interface that best connects with a Google world, which is vastly different from the interface that worked with a Gutenberg world.
Randall Bradley – Memory: Shaping Music’s Past, Present, and Future (2012 Alleluia Conference)
Memory is a key ingredient in shaping the church’s music and its worship. As a window into…
Harold Best – Musical Localism & Musical Globalism (2011 Alleluia Conference)
Globalism is certainly a better term than multiculturalism, but neither one suggests anything approaching a…
Harold Best – The Arts, Culture, and the Radical Centrality of the Church (2011 Alleluia Conference)
It is one thing to say that the practice of church music is central to the life of the church, but quite another to say…
Harold Best – Architecture as Frozen Music (2011 Alleluia Conference)
Goethe once said that architecture is frozen music. While this statement can be taken…
Harold Best – Worship Leadership: Resetting the Agenda (2011 Alleluia Conference)
The current issues in music and worship are at least a half-century old and are now settling down into traditionalism and…
Harold Best – Music in Worship: Creating the Right Problems (2011 Alleluia Conference)
Music, at base, is at once a magnificent and troublesome wonder. Its use throughout church history bears…
Marva Dawn – What We Can Learn from the Early Church about Worship (2010 Alleluia Conference)
What practices from the early centuries of Christianity can teach us essential elements for our worship in the 21st century? Why have these pieces been lost…
Marva Dawn – Trinitarian Spirituality for a Fragmented World (2010 Alleluia Conference)
All religions have a creator of some sort; what difference does it make that Christianity is Trinitarian? Then, when the music, message,..
Marva Dawn – MetaNarrative and the Recapitulation of the Cosmos (2010 Alleluia Conference)
What is the essential message of the Church, and why is it crucial for the sake of the world? Why is the timeless message of the Gospel exactly what…
Marva Dawn – Borderland Churches (2010 Alleluia Conference)
A Canadian author suggests that churches need to learn to live in the “borderlands”, where faith, other faiths, and unfaith intersect. This…
Marva Dawn – Are We Failing to Be the Church (2010 Alleluia Conference)
Critics use all kinds of measurements to proclaim that present-day churches in the U.S. are failing. This session will…
Branon Dempsey – Worship Theology in Contemporary Songs (2010 Alleluia Conference)
A closer look at worship from a biblical perspective through our leading, singing and planning. – Music and Worship Is Not Synonymous – A Look At Authentic Biblical Worship…
Michael Hawn – Praying with the Iona Community (2009 Alleluia Conference)
How do worship and justice relate? The Iona Community offers a model. Developed in the context of a declining church attendance, Iona worship speaks to a pattern…