Upcoming Event
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Andrew Root
August 3 - 8, 2025
Ben Dykhouse on a Chapel Planning Process that Engages Students
Ben Dykhouse teaches computer applications and church history at Ontario Christian High School in Ontario, California. He also co-teaches a daily chapel class for the school’s weekly chapel worship. In this edited conversation he talks about a chapel planning model that focuses on glorifying God together.
March 7, 2012
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4 min read
Increasing Participation in High School Chapel Services
How well do your Christian high school chapels, liturgies, or all-school worship times help students grow in faith? Are your staff and faculty planning chapels for or with students?
March 7, 2012
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5 min read
What College Students Have Taught Me 91 Preaching
They are the emerging leaders in our congregations. They are only a few years away from serving as deacons, elders, or preachers themselves. What are they listening for in sermons? What are they hungry for? What bores them?
January 27, 2012
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58 min listen
Does 91 Keep Your Understanding of God Too Small? Insights from Ancient Constantinople about the Transcendent in 91
91 today often stresses the nearness of God, on God as our personal friend. But God is much more. This session explored the setting and practices of worship in 6th century Constantinople to learn how they can contribute to our worship practices and larger understanding of the greatness of God.
January 27, 2012
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59 min listen
Emerging Adults, Emerging 91
We are currently observing a new phenomenon within the development of young adults: emerging adulthood, which spans the ages of 18 to 29, marked by unprecedented options for education, work and career choices, delayed marriage and family life, and remarkable geographic mobility.
January 27, 2012
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66 min listen
Talking with Children about the Sacraments
These two mothers of young children have a particular interest in helping children understand what it means to be baptized and to participate in the Lord’s Supper.
January 27, 2012
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68 min listen
Planning and Leading 91 in Christian High School Chapels
This seminar is for students, staff, teachers, and any others interested in deepening and renewing worship in Christian High school chapel services through thoughtful worship planning and leading.
January 26, 2012
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154 min listen
Learning 91 through Book Groups
How studying a book or sermons together in a small group knits church members together in worship, fellowship, and discipleship.
January 5, 2012
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8 min read
Bonnie Lee on Sermon-based Small Groups
A conversation with Bonnie Lee on Sermon-based Small Groups
January 5, 2012
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3 min read
Joel Schoon-Tanis on Painting "Pa-Salms"
Joel Schoon-Tanis talks about his painting “Pa-Salms,” which he created especially for the Psalms art exhibit at the Calvin Symposium on 91.
December 19, 2011
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3 min video
Joel Schoon-Tanis on Creating Collaborative Art with Kids
Schoon-Tanis has created many murals with kids in schools and youth homes. Here he talks about how to create collaborative art with kids.
December 19, 2011
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1 min video
Bob and Laura Keeley on Lament Psalms and Children
Robert “Bob” Keeley teaches education at Calvin College. He and his wife, Laura Keeley, direct children’s ministries at Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. They write books, curriculum, and plays. Here they talk about making lament psalms accessible to children.
September 20, 2011
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4 min read