1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Opening Sentences
One: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
The Lord's name be praised!
Opening Prayer
Song of Praise and Confidence: "How Firm a Foundation"
An Enactment Prayer
Habakkuk 1:2-4
...lamenting the violence in our hearts
...silence
...sing "Gbemi Jesu"
Habakkuk 1:5-7
...lamenting our gluttonous possession
...silence
...sing "Gbemi Jesu"
Habakkuk 2:9-11, 15-17
...lamenting our consumption of creatures and creation
...silence
...sing "Gbemi Jesu"
Habakkuk 2:18-20
...lamenting our grasping at idols
...silence
Song of Response: "How Can I Keep from Singing"
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading: Habakkuk 3:17-19
Sermon: Yet I Will Rejoice
Song of Response: "All Will Be Well"
Prayers of the People
Remembrance of Baptism and Profession of Faith: "Neither Death Nor Life"
Song of Praise: "What Wondrous Love"
Benediction
Closing Sentences
One: Bless the Lord.
All: The Lord's name be praised!
Announcements
We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by the faculty, staff, and students from Western Theological Seminary, under the direction of Ron Rienstra. Sue Rozeboom, liturgist, with Megan Dalman and Seth VanderBroek; Hannah Barker Nickolay, embodied scripture reading; and Cornelius Plantinga Jr.,preaching.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
A Psalm Talk by Jared E. Alcántara recorded at the 2026 Psalms 150 conference, with a visual prayer and embodied response from artist Dea Jenkins.
