We’re announcing an entirely new pricing for our ESSENTIALS ONLINE COURSE, in celebration of our partnership with WorshipMusic.com.
It’s a big shift, and I wanted my blog readers to know about it, as the RED module is just about here. If you want to dive in, go to the LEARN MORE, and then when you want to apply, ask us about the WorshipMusic.com discount. Here it is. Starting at $99, Essentials RED. See below…
THE ESSENTIALS COURSE is a unique, 15 week online learning experience. Study the arts of worship theology, history, creativity, spiritual formation and leadership with internationally respected worship leader Dan Wilt, M.Min., with media from N.T. Wright, Robert Webber, Matt Redman, Brian Doerksen and others. LEARN MORE or CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
ESSENTIALS RED is a 5 week module that makes up 1/3 of The FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE (Blue, Red and Green). RED is the study of foundational worship values, leadership and spiritual formation.
HOW WILL RED BENEFIT ME?
- ADD ancient worship ideas to your worship leading tool box.
- GAIN fresh, timeless approaches to holiday worship expressions, communion and more.
- SERVE your local church with creative riches inspired by history.
WHEN
Nov. 3 - Dec. 5, 2008 (5 weeks)
Register by Oct. 25th
Note: Register by Oct. 25th and get a free Dan Wilt and N. T. Wright Reclaiming Worship CD!
WHO
Worship Pastors, worship leaders, worship musicians, pastors, artists and worshippers
HOW MUCH TIME IT WILL TAKE
Approx. 1 hr./day (Approx. 6 hrs. or less per wk.!), for 5 weeks
TUITION (with WM.com code)
Non-university credit
Essentials Red (5 week module only): $99 USD
FULL ESSENTIALS SEMINAR (15 weeks, Blue/Red/Green): only $149 USD
For university credit
Essentials Red (5 week module for university credit): $249 USD
FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE (15 weeks, Blue/Red/Green for univ. credit): only $599 USD
HOW DO I REGISTER?
Click below, fill in the form, and then pay via PayPal. It’s that simple.
In ESSENTIALS RED, Everything has a story - Worship has a powerful one.Consider the influence of just one worship song - Amazing Grace - in reshaping history. Consider how communion, a symbolic action in worship, has shaped lives for 2000 years! Consider how the art and music has led people of all ethnic groups in worship - across centuries. Our worship history has much to teach us for today.
ESSENTIALS RED is a life-changing, online, 5 week module course for contemporary and emerging worship leaders with Dan Wilt, M.Min., studying essential values in worship and the spiritual formation of leaders. Packed with media from N. T. Wright and others via iTunes U, Facebook, Blogs, readings and more, the course only takes 6-8 hours a week, connecting with an international class of peers. RED is the study of worship through the ages, giving tools for today.
WHAT FRIENDS ARE SAYING:
“I love Dan’s passion for worship and enthusiasm to train and equip others. He is a gifted communicator and has inspired many worship leaders over the years. Here is a man who is living to make God’s praise glorious.” Tim Hughes (Here I Am To Worship)
“Dan Wilt has a clear vision of what the church needs to recapture and deepen in worship. He is a gifted communicator and leader. I have known Dan for over ten years and I heartily recommend Dan and his Worship Institute to you!” Brian Doerksen (Come, Now Is The Time)
“It should be illegal to be a worship leader without doing this course! I wish I could have had this exposure 20 years ago!” Jamie Appleton (Essentials Blue, WL, Texas, USA)
COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK 1
Essential Worship History: The Language Of Time And Space
How have Christians used the language of time (daily, weekly, yearly and lifetime) to order their worship around Jesus over the millenia? What roles have holidays such as Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter played in the worship life of the Church? How have life journeys and passages such as birth, death, marriage, adolescence and other common human experiences played in the historic worship of the Church? What roles have landscapes, architecture, atmosphere and each age’s cultural experience played in cultivating a living worship expression in each age?
WEEK 2
Essential Worship History: The Language Of Prayer And Scripture
From the early Church through to the 21st century, the importance of God’s people praying together, and hearing the Scriptures read aloud have played a vital role in engaging the Church in her mission with God in the world. What creative approaches to these forms of worship could strengthen us today?
WEEK 3
Essential Worship History: The Language Of Baptism And The Eucharist
The language of sacraments and symbols may be unusual for many contemporary Christians growing up outside of liturgical churches. What are the real meanings, biblically and historically, behind the worship acts of Baptism and the Eucharist (communion)? In what ways could we reclaim their vitality in our worship expression today?
WEEK 4
Essential Worship History: The Language Of Art And Music
The role of the creative leader expressing worship through the media of art and music has been diverse across the history of the Church - from early church symbols, to Michelangelo’s Pieta, to Isaac Watt’s hymns, to Newton’s stunning Amazing Grace. Snapshots of worship history give us insight into how the Church has utilized art to further the missional worship story of every generation.
Week 5
Essential Worship History: Creative Projects
Our final week of the course will involve the creative distilling of our historical learning into a final project that will serve one’s local worshipping community. This is a favorite part of the course for all!
Join us for a season of transformation, either in RED or the FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE.
5 Comments
FINALLY had a chance to look at your new website … just fantastic… great job!!!
Thanks Mark. Lots of life, all around. We should catch up. Right now, 11 Masters students are here for their study, and many more online and in the Steve.
Thanks for the love, and the boost.
Great idea to make it a non-credit course/seminar too.
Dan,
I just have to say- when I see your constant energy and clarity to keep the train on the “tracks” in regard to the Institute, it simply amazes me. God has given you a broad and beautiful vision at ICEWS and SSU. What you are doing isn’t just delivering a few needed supplies to settlers up in a winter camp deep the frontier. At least that is not all you are doing. You are building a rail road, not delivering just a single payload. As you hear God’s voice in building it, you are indeed delivering needed supplies to each one of us (and certainly that is helping us in pursuing and living God’s reality on this earthly ball). But more than that temporary supply load, the “tracks” you are building for this “train” (pun intended) will be around for hundreds of years to come. In fact, as we know from the people who built the original railways in the US, that if those pathways are built well, they will be used for many generations to come.
ICEWS and the programs may adapt year to year (we have to constantly upgrade rail tracks that need replacement), but the foundations and pathways through the major segments of wilderness (theology, history, leadership and community) are what help all of us build for ourselves and for our children, all the while learning from the ancients who have gone before us.
The e*blue course has been great, and I am sure e*red will be glowing like fire! Continue to bring in the challenges and benefits of university level learning in portions ready for whoever is ready to eat. For the hungry life long vocationalists, the big meal of the masters degree. For the part time worship leaders with years of practical experience, intensive courses and online modules.
I speak for the broader community of worship leaders, influencers and learners- keep forging the way and challenging us Dan!
You are doing a great job!
Kim
Dan ,
I love that we can participate in unraveling the mysteries of God together, working as a body to advance the Kingdom of God. I try to employ the saying “Don;t judge a book by its cover” and I believe we are opening some very interesting liturgical books of our ancient past.
I just want to say thank you for everything your doing Essentials Red is going really well. Your challenging us to dig deep and search for the whys of what we do.
Keep up the good work!
Let us be living and loving Mystέrions for Christ!
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