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A worship service from the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Institution Name: Singapore Bible College
Participants:
Worship Leader: Joseph Lee
Narration and Scripture Readers: Joseph Lee, Mary Grace Adriano
Lament Prayer: Joel Navarro, Virginia Soo Tsai
Soloists: B Dau Nyai ,Benjamin Wu, Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng, Eudenice Palarvan, Joseph Lee, Natalie Megan Cheng, Senlilo Yanthan
Dance: Ann Palarvan
Music Arrangements: B Dau Nyoi, Dan Forrest, Mharhomo Kithan, Tony Clayton Chang, Virginia Soo Tsai
Call to Worship: Aprilia Wismanami, B Dau Nyoi, Eudenice Palaruan, Jovan Paul, Chirakkarottu, Kevichuno Soukhrie, Moses Lee, Sheila Ong, Sila Sethsophonkul, Thandar Aung Kyaw Soe, Zhang Yue
Choir Keyboardist: Kiew chieh Sing Evelyn
Choir: Ana Christiany, B Dau Nyoi, Blessing Tamai Oo, Toh Han Yi, Illiza Yeptho, Kevichuno Soukhrie, Mharhomo Kithan, Eudenice Palaruan
AV Editor: Aria Prasetya
Worship Design and Coordination: Eudencie Palaruan, Joseph Lee, Joel Navarro, Myrleen Grace Yup, Virginia Tsai
Location: Singpore
Copyrights:
“Come, People of the Risen King”
Text and Music: Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, and Stuart Townend, arr. Tony Chong © 2007 ThankYou Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“God of the Deep”
Text: Eileen Berry © 2015 Beckenhorst Press
Music: Dan Forrest © 2015 Beckenhorst Press
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“Lord of the Small”
Text: Joanna Anderson © 2010 Beckhorst Press
Music: Dan Forrest © 2010 Beckenhorst Press
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“God Is So Good”
Text and Music: Rick Altizer © 2007 Fuseic Music Publishing, admin. Peer Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“What God Ordains Is Always Good”
Text: Samuel Rodigast; tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941
Muisc: Servus Gastorius; arr. Virginia Soo Tsai and Mharhomo Kithan
Used by permission
“Hallelujah to the Lamb”
Text and Music: Debbye Graafsma, Don Moen © 1997 Integrity’s Hosanna! music, admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing, integrity Music, David C. Cook
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.
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.
