From Your Heart to Theirs is for laity and clergy who are striving to build their preaching skills. It is a two-week course with insights into the connection of scripture with events and experiences, even if you haven’t preached that way before, while offering a safe space to practice those skills, and without leaving home.
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Called to Preach is for laity and clergy who are striving to build their preaching skills. It is a two-week course that provides learning and practice with specific sermon structures, research resources for sermon content, and the opportunity to present a sermon, all in a safe space for practicing skills.
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Leading Worship is a two-week foundational course on worship for laity and clergy who want to build their leadership confidence. Focus is on the Basic Pattern of Christian worship and on the dynamics of energy, presence, and flow, giving learners the opportunity to practice and improve those elements with feedback from the instructor and from their peers.
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From Your Heart to Theirs is for laity and clergy who are striving to expand their preaching abilities. It is a two-week course with insights into the connection of scripture with events and experiences, even if you haven’t preached that way before, while offering a safe space to practice those skills, and without leaving home.
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Leading Worship is a two-week foundational course on worship for laity and clergy who want to build their leadership confidence. Focus is on the Basic Pattern of Christian worship and on the dynamics of energy, presence, and flow, giving learners the opportunity to practice and improve those elements with feedback from the instructor and from their peers.
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Leading Worship is a two-week foundational course on worship for laity and clergy who want to build their leadership confidence. Focus is on the Basic Pattern of Christian worship and on the dynamics of energy, presence, and flow, giving learners the opportunity to practice and improve those elements with feedback from the instructor and from their peers.
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Called to Preach is for laity and clergy who are striving to build their preaching skills. It is a two-week course that provides learning and practice with specific sermon structures, research resources for sermon content, and the opportunity to present a sermon, all in a safe space for practicing skills.
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This course is for those who must preach in the wake of mass trauma. ‘Preaching on Fractured Ground’ is designed to help pastors and other leaders prepare sermons for “holding the reality of brokenness, pain, and traumatic loss on one side and hope, resurrection, and redemption on the other.” This course includes two sermon forms for preaching in the wake of mass trauma, and engages lament to honor narrative fracture while attending to brokenness and not losing sight of hope.
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This course is for those who read Scripture aloud for a worshipping congregation, and want to increase their people’s engagement with God’s powerful stories of Jesus’ death and Resurrection. This year, we’ll explore Matthew’s Resurrection story deeply together. We’ll experience its challenges, and coach one another in reading it “with a storytelling spirit!”
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Try something fun with a lot of new ideas for using biblical storytelling in worship and teaching! This course explores a number of storytelling genres as well as telling the Biblical text, including midrash, chancel drama, first-person storytelling, puppetry, and more. The workshop also offers specific ideas for using and not abusing voice and body, enhancing tellings with props, digital media, and more with children and adults.
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