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Fruit of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is a worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Colloquium in June 2014. Most of the songs are found in the hymnal Lift Up Your Hearts.
Faithfulness of Christ / Gathering
Uyai mose / Come, All You People
Choir anthem, congregation joins as directed. Music by Gerald Custer.
Greeting: Revelation 1:4-5
Welcome
Love of Christ / Praise
Ephesians 3:14-19
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Solo. Arranged by Mark Miller.
For the Fruit of All Creation
Summary Prayer
Joy of Christ / Thanksgiving
Hebrews 12:1-3
Luke 15: Parables of the Lost Sheep, Coin, and Son
Scripture Team
Summary Prayer
Patience of Christ / Confession
2 Peter 3:8-9
Perdón, Señor / Forgive Us, Lord
Summary Prayer
Goodness and Kindness of Christ / Assurance
Ephesians 2:1-10
Total Praise
Summary Prayer
Gentleness of Christ / Intercession
Matthew 11:28-30
Prayers of the People
Self-Control of Christ / Dedication
Philippians 2:5-11
Take My Life and Let It Be
Choir, congregation joins as directed.
Take, O Take Me as I Am
Peace of Christ / Sending
Benediction: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
May the Love of the Lord
Download projection slides from the service.
View the script for the Luke 15 reading
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Read more about the 2014 Grants Colloquium
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.
