Faith Formation

Eric Washington on African American Missionaries

Before William Carey founded a mission society, or Adoniram and Ann Judson sailed to Burma, a former African American slave had already become a missionary to Jamaica.

April 24, 2015 | 2 min read
Listening to Your Listeners: A Preaching Preparation Process That Changes…Everything!

During this workshop, participants discover how diverse congregations have established and maintained pre-sermon dialogue groups.

March 11, 2015 | 57 min listen

91ÁÔÆæ and Discipleship: Unresolved Questions in Contemporary Ministry

This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.

February 26, 2015 | 58 min listen
Praying and Leading with the Psalms

This workshop offers ideas and activities, many of which have been used with junior high, high school, and college youth, for working with the psalms in small groups or educational settings to prepare pieces that can help lead worship or devotional study.

February 25, 2015 | 56 min listen
Reconciling with the Church

Pope Francis recently said "Christians are not made in a laboratory, but in a community called the church." But what about those people for whom the church has been a source of pain?

February 25, 2015 | 55 min listen

Outward-Faced 91ÁÔÆæ

Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?

February 23, 2015 | 61 min listen
91ÁÔÆæ and Discipleship: Unresolved Questions in Contemporary Ministry

This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.

February 23, 2015 | 58 min listen

What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan

Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, 91ÁÔÆæ Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.

February 23, 2015 | 57 min listen
Sticky Liturgies: 91ÁÔÆæ, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers

Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?

February 20, 2015 | 64 min listen
Jerry Sittser on Growing through Adversity and Spiritual Practices

You probably gather for worship with both lifelong worshipers and those new to the Bible. Jerry Sittser mines the history of Christian spirituality for nuggets that give life to all levels of worshipers.

January 6, 2015 | 2 min read