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2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Vesper
“Uyai mose / Come, All You People”
“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
Leader: The light shines in the darkness,
All: and the darkness has not overcome it.
The Word became flesh and lived among us,
and we have beheld Christ’s glory.
To us a child is born, to us a Son has been given.
In the Word was life, and the life was the light of all people.
Leader: Let us confess our sins to God.
All: Almighty God, our heavenly Father:
we have sinned against you,
in thought, word and deed,
by what we have done,
and by what we have left undone.
For the sake of your Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
forgive us all our sins
so that we may serve you
in newness of life,
to the glory of your name. Amen.
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is God’s steadfast love.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far does God remove our sins from us.
Amen.
Psalm 42
Leader: As the deer longs for the water-brooks
so longs my soul for you, O God.
All: I thirst for God, for the living God;
when shall I come to appear
before the presence of God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long they say to me, “Where now is your God?”
I pour out my soul when I think on these things;
how I went with the multitude
and led them into the house of God,
with shouts of thanksgiving, among those keeping the festival.
Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul,
and why are you so disquieted within me?
Put your trust in God, for I will yet give thanks to the one
who is my help and my God.
The story of Noah as told in Genesis
"My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less"
Isaiah 7:10–15
Isaiah 2:1–4
Choral Prayer: “Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies Sake”
Leader: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
All: And also with you.
We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by James E. Bobb and the Choral Scholars
Psalm 42: from Evangelical Lutheran Worship © 2006 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, admin. Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Jared Ortiz, professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, describes the Nicene Creed as a dramatic and powerful statement where every word is like a declaration of war, saying yes to the truth and no to many falsehoods.
Jane Williams, professor of theology at St. Mellitus College in London, England, sees the Nicene Creed, crafted 1700 years ago, as an extraordinary creative and exciting description of who God is and therefore what we trust in as Christians in God's world.
Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts serve on a planning team for an October worship event in Egypt to mark the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the ecumenical creed that emerged in the year 325 and remains firmly embedded in the worship practices of the church today.
Jared Ortiz, professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, describes the Nicene Creed as a dramatic and powerful statement where every word is like a declaration of war, saying yes to the truth and no to many falsehoods.
Jane Williams, professor of theology at St. Mellitus College in London, England, sees the Nicene Creed, crafted 1700 years ago, as an extraordinary creative and exciting description of who God is and therefore what we trust in as Christians in God's world.
Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts serve on a planning team for an October worship event in Egypt to mark the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the ecumenical creed that emerged in the year 325 and remains firmly embedded in the worship practices of the church today.
This expression of Psalm 148 was submitted by Ed Willmington, who wrote it with Clayton J. Schmit. The nature of Psalm 148 is total exuberance as all of nature offers praise to God.
