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Gather: “Come to Me”
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
God’s Greeting
Call to Confession: Isaiah 30:15, 18
Prayer of Confession: Psalm 51:1-17 with “Create in Me”
Text and Music: Psalm 51:10-12, Anonymous, P.D.
Assurance: “All I Have Is Christ”
Text and Music: Jordan Kauflin © 2008 Sovereign Grace Praise
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Passing the Peace
Prayer for Illumination: “Speak to Us”
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough and Rachel Wilhelm © 2018 Rachel Wilhelm Music; Wendell Kimbrough
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Scripture: Ezekiel 18
Sermon
Prayers of the People with “Kyrie”
Text: Rachel Wilhelm and Kate Bluett © 2020 Rachel Wilhelm and Kate Bluett
Music: Rachel Wilhelm © 2020 Rachel Wilhelm
Used by permission.
Song: “Come Light Our Hearts”
Text and Music: Sandra McCracken © 2014 Drink Your Tea, admin. Music Services
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Benediction
Send: “Let Us Be Known / Que nos conozcan”
Text and Music: Matt Armstrong, Micah Massey, Nate Moore, and Ryan Flanigan © 2015 Wordspring Music, a division of Word Music Group, Inc.; Spanish translation Carlos Lemagne, 2023
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
