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On the campus of Calvin University
© 2025 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Gathering Song: “You Are God”
Text and Music: Meachum L. Clarke © 2023 True Purpose Music Group, distributed by MNRK Records LP
Call to Worship:
Song of Praise: “Great Are You, Lord”
Text and Music: David Leonard, Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan © 2012 Integrity Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
God’s Greeting
Song: “Dry Bones”
Text and Music: Ernest Vaughan, Anna Golden, Kira Daffin © 2023 Capitol CMG Paragon; TeeLee Records Songs; Integrity's Alleluia! Music; Redworx Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayers of the People
Scripture: Ezekiel 37
Song: “God Breathed”
Text and Music: Ruth Naomi Floyd © 2024 Ruth Naomi Floyd NaRu Inc. SESAC
Used by permission.
Sermon
The Lord’s Supper
Communion Song: “Let Us Break Bread Together”
Text and Music: African American spiritual, P.D.
Communion Song: “O the Blood”
Text and Music: Thomas Miller and Mary Elizabeth Miller © 1987 Gateway Create Publishing, Entertainment One Songs
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Communion Song: “There Is a Fountain”
Text: William Cowper
Music: early American melody; arr. Clarence McClendon © 2000 Integrity Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Communion Song: “You Are the Living Word”
Text: Fred Hammond © 2000 Bridge Building Music, Inc., K & F Music, Universal Music - Z Melodies
Music: Noel Hall © 2000 Bridge Building Music, Inc., K & F Music, Universal Music - Z Melodies
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayer and Benediction
Closing Song: “Living in the Overflow”
Text and Music: Lara Landon, Charity Gayle, Joshua Adam Sherman, Steven Musso, Sabin Flore, Desiree Sherman, Sarah Rachel Hodges, Aliyah Danielle Clift © 2021 Charity Gayle/ The Fuel Music
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.
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.
