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A worship service from the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Participants: Josh Davis, Jaewoo Kim, Joy Kim, Sylvie Kabanga, Dareen Sayar, Sarah Dresser, Grace Funderberg, Fede Apecena, Jeremy Penstsil, Chantal Ndenga, Crystal Hao, Emily Kim, Glory Matu
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Location: Clarkston, Georgia, USA
Copyrights:
“Jalali Yesu” (Urdu and English)
Text and Music: Evan Rogers © 2009 Evan Rogers
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“Yesu Azali Awa” (Lingala)
Text and Music: Congolese folk hymn; English tr. Emily R. Brink
Used by permission.
“Atlubu Waghakaa” (Arabic)
Text: Philip Wissa
Music: unknown
Used by permission.
“Holy Spirit” (English)
Text and Music: Bryan Torwalt, Katie Torwalt © 2011 Capital CMG Genesis, Jesus Culture Music, admin. Capital CMG Publishing
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“Here” (English, Spanish, Korean)
Text and Music: Joshua S. Davis, Jaewoo Kim, Grace Funderburgh © 2017 Proskuneo Ministries, Inc.
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“King of Glory” (Korean, Mandarin, English, French)
Text and Music: Joshua S. Davis © 2002 Proskuneo Ministries, Inc.
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“Trinitarian Prayer”
Text and Music: Joshua S. Davis © 2020 Proskuneo Ministries, Inc.
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“May We”
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
