The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies (www.iws.edu) is a unique graduate school offering Master of Worship Studies and Doctor or Worship Studies degrees that combine the best of on-campus learning and long distance interactively to form servant leaders in Christian worship. Below is a partial listing of the many diverse books that have been written by the faculty, graduates, and students of IWS. Click on the title to view details and be able to purchase a copy. Any books published on any topic are eligible for listing here, not just worship related topics. If you are a part of the IWS community and would like to have your books listed here, send an email to Larry D. Ellis.
For an exhaustive list of a Bibliography focused entirely upon Worship Studies compiled by Mark A. Torgerson, click here.
Jim Altizer, DWS
Morning Conversations: Meditations from the Predawn Hours, 2020
Roadmaps for Daily Worship, 2000
Solstice Souls: Compelling Stories from Extraordinary Lives, 2020
The Making of a Worship Leader, 2013
Steven Brooks
Worship Formation: A Call to Embrace Christian Growth in Each Element of the Worship Service, 2020
Worship Quest: An Exploration of Worship Leadership, 2015
The Week That Changed The World: Daily Reflections for Holy Week, 2021
Jeff Barker
Performing the Plays of the Bible: Seven Ancient Scripts and Our Journey to Return Them to the Stage, 2020
The Storytelling Church: Adventures in Reclaiming the Role of Story in Worship, 2011
Eric Bolger, PhD, DWS
Journey Into Intercession, 2007
Gerald L. Borchert, PhD, LLB
Christ and Chaos: Biblical Keys to Ethical Questions, 2019
Tension: Empowering Christian Thought and Life, 2021
Worship in the New Testament: Divine Mystery and Human Response, 2008
Romans, Galatians (Cornerstone Biblical Commentary), 2007
Christ and Chaos: Biblical Keys to Ethical Questions, 2019
Land of the Bible: In the Steps of Paul and John, 2012
Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Witness to the Ministry of Wayne E. Oats, 1985
Dynamics of Evangelism, 1976
Discovering Thessalonians (The Guidepost home Bible Study Program, 1986
Jesus of Nazareth: Background, Witnesses, and Significance, 2011
Portraits of Jesus: For an Age of Biblical Illiteracy, 2017
Today’s Model Church: A Pattern from the New Testament, 1971
Assurance and Warning, 1987
The Gospel of John, 2010
Assaulted by Grief, 2011 (also by David E. Crutchley)
Strategic Portraits: People and Movements, 2019
John 1-11: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture (The New American Commentary), 1996
John 12-21: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture (New American Commentary), 2002
Paul & His Interpreters: An Annotated Bibliography, 1985
The Dynamics of Pauline Evangelism, 1969 (out of print)
Constance M. Cherry, D.Min
Music Architect: Blueprints for Engaging Worshipers in Song, 2016
Worship Like Jesus: A Guide for Every Follower, 2019
James C. Dodge, DWS
The Gavel: From Verdict to Victory,
Larry D. Ellis, DWS
Called Together: Biblical Leadership for Women and Men, 2021
Forgiveness: Unleashing a Transformational Process, 2010
Great Connections: Loving with Limits, 2018
Radical Worship: What Sunday Morning Can Never Give You, 2014
Gringos in the Americans: Bridging the Culture Gap, 2019
Secrets for a Successful Small Business: What the University Will Not Teach You, 2011
Frank Fortunato
Worship and Mission for the Global Church an Ethnodoxology Handbook, 2013
All the World is Singing, 2006
Dinelle Frankland
His Story, Our Response: What the Bible Says About Worship, 2008
Robert J. George
The Mystery of Worship: What Happens When Christians Worship,
Brian Hedrick, DWS
The Biblical Foundations of Instrumental Music in Worship: Four Pillars, 2009
Music of Darkness: The Peril of Worshiping the Creation Over the Creator, 2021
Andrew E. Hill
Enter His Courts with Praise!: Old Testament Worship for the New Testament church (2ne edition), 1997
Old Testament Today, 2nd Edition: A Journey from Ancient Context to Contemporary relevance, 2014, (Also by John H. Walton)
A Survey of the Old Testament (3rd edition), 2009
Haggi, Zechariah, Malachi: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries), 2015
1 and 2 Chronicles (The NIV Application Commentary), 2010
Wallace Horton
Windows on Worship, 2021
Reggie M. Kidd
With One Voice: Discovering Christ’s Song in Our Worship, 2005
Commentary on 1-2 Timothy and Titus: From the Baker illustrated Bible Commentary, 2019
Alan Rathe, Ph.D.
Evangelicals, Worship and Participation: Taking a Twenty-First Century Reading, 2016
David Manner, DWS
Better Sundays Begin on Monday
Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid, Th.D.
Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Perspectives, 2009
James: True Religion in Suffering, 1996
Poverty and Wealth in James, 2004
Complete Evangelism: The Luke-Acts Model, 1997
Robert A Myers
Strategic Portraits: People and Movements That Shaped Evangelical Worship, 2019
Lester Ruth
Lovin’ on Jesus, 2017
Flow: The Ancient Way to Do Contemporary Worship, 2020
Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship, 2020
Creative Preaching on the Sacraments, 2020
Walking Where Jesus Walked: Worship in Fourth-Century Jerusalem, 2010
Early Methodist Life and Spirituality: A Reader, 2005
Longing for Jesus: Worship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 1894-1913, 2013
A Little Heaven Below: Worship at Early Methodist Quarterly Meetings, 2000
Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard: The Emergence of Contemporary Worship, 2016
Accompanying the Journey: A Handbook for Sponsors, 2012
Robert E. Webber
Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative, 2008
Ancient-Future Time, 2004
Ancient-Future Faith, 1999
Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making your Church a Faith-forming Community, 2003
Worship is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, 1996
Worship Old and New, 1994
The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life, 2006
Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals, 2008
Rediscovering the Christian Feasts: A Study in the Services of the Christian Year, 1998
Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith, 2009
The Younger Evangelicals, 2002
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives, 2009
Journey to Jesus, 2001
The People of the Truth: The Power of the Worshipping Community in the Modern World, 2001
The Complete Library of Christian worship, 1996 (Seven volumes)