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Song of Preparation: “I Will Worship You” / “예배합니다”
Text and Music: Rose Park, 1997; English translation Ho-ki Min © 2005 Sea of Hope / WorshipChanmi Korea
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Introit: “Joo-yeo, Come, O Lord” / “주여, 우리에게 오시어”
Words: Book of Common Prayer, Anglican Church of Korea, 1994, rev. 2004; Eng. trans. Martin Tel, 2023
Music: Sunlac Noh; arr. Hyunji Kim, 2021
Used by permission.
Call to Worship: Psalm 121
Song: “In the Shade of God (Psalm 121)” / “하나님은 너를 지키시는 자” (시편 121편)
Words: based on Psalm 121, Seong Sil Chung ©; Eng. trans. Adam M. L. Tice, 2019; © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Seong Sil Chung
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Call to Confession and Prayer of Confession
Song: “God of My Hope” / “주 은혜임을”
Text and Music: Sun-kyung Jeong and Jin-young Soh © 2014 Kwangsoo Media; English translation Martin Tel, 2023
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Assurance of Pardon
Based on 1 Timothy 1:15-17
Prayers of the People with “Never-Ending Is God’s Love” / “우리에게 향하신”
Words and Music: Jin-ho Kim, based on Psalm 117:2 © admin. KOMCA; harm. Chan Gyu Jang, 2023
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading: Ezekiel 10–11
Sermon
Prayer
Song: “Rise, My Soul, till Jesus Comes Again” / “주님 다시 오실 때까지”
Text and Music: Hyeong-won Koh, 2004 © 2004 Hyeong-won Koh, admin. KCMCA; English translation Martin Tel, 2023
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Benediction
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
