Psalm 42 and 43 - A Psalm of Lament
A sample service of lament from the Calvin Symposium on Worship based on Psalms 42 and 43.
Theme of the Service
Prelude |
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The Lord Be with You |
Ron Rienstra | |
Welcome |
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Orientation |
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Call to Worship |
Psalm 98:1-3 |
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Celebration |
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty |
Psalter Hymnal 253 |
| Forever | Chris Tomlin | |
| Adoration | Psalm 145:13-16 | |
| Great Is Thy Faithfulness | Psalter Hymnal 556 | |
| Prayer | ||
Disorientation |
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Lamentation |
"40" (U2 song sung with images and words of lament displayed from around the world) Prayer God of life, God of comfort: |
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Proclamation |
Scripture reading: Psalm 42 and 43 (read responsively with refrain Hear Our Prayer) Tanya Riches |
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| Sermon: A Means of Escape | ||
Intercession |
"Be Near" (Shane and Shane song sung & danced) choreographed by Eunbee Ham |
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Reorientation |
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Thanksgiving |
Psalm 116: I Love the Lord |
Sing! A New Creation 227 |
| I Worship You, O Lord | Psalter Hymnal 30 | |
| In Christ Alone | Keith Getty & Stuart Townend | |
Celebration |
Psalm 18:1-3 |
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| I Will Call Upon the Lord | Michael O'Shields | |
Blessing |
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Benediction |
My Friends, May You Grow in Grace |
Sing! A New Creation 288 |
Postlude |
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"[In the Psalms], the prayers for help, the songs of praise for help, and the songs of trust reflect a movement from helplessness through salvation to gratitude and to the life of trust based on the experience of salvation. . . The movement is the basic pattern of the Christian's relation to God through Christ."
~ James Luther Mays, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms
(Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994), 42.
The language of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation is drawn from the work of Walter
Brueggemann, in The Psalms and the Life of Faith, ed. Patrick D. Miller (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1995), and The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984).