1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Gathering Song: Come, All You Servants of the Lord
Song of Praise: Praise the Lord
Call to Worship
Song of Praise: Hail to the Lord's Anointed
God's Greeting
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture: Amos 8:1-7
Sermon
Prayer
Silence
Prayer of Lament and Confession
Sung Petition: Lord, to You My Soul Is Lifted
Prayer for Hope and Courage
Song of Response: God Is My Light
Assurance: 1 John 1:5-7
Song of Dedication: Bless the Lord, My Soul
Song of Dedication: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Benediction
Doxology: Come, All You Servants of the Lord
We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by The Psalm Project, Norma de Waal Malefyt, Jonathan Karnes, AJ Muuse, Andrew van Zytveld, Laura de Jong, and Timothy Blackmon.
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.
