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Welcome
Invocation – Awakening
Gillian D. Grannum © 2000 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Call – Psalm 30:1-3 (NLT)
I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me.
You refused to let my enemies triumph over me.
O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health.
You brought me up from the grave, O Lord.
You kept me from falling into the pit of death.
Response – Amazing Grace
John Newton, Public Domain
Call – Psalm 30:4 (NLT)
Sing to the Lord, all you godly ones! Praise his holy name.
Response – O Give Thanks
Gillian D. Grannum © 2011 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Call – Psalm 30:5 (NLT)
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime!
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Response –
Rain
Gillian D. Grannum © 2000 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Cry - Collective Improvisation, Jazz Vespers Ensemble
The Bottle of Tears [Song of Comfort]
Ruth Naomi Floy © 2006 NaRu Music
Call – Psalm 30:6-7a (NLT)
When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!”
Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain.
Response – I Know
Gillian D. Grannum © 2004 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Call – Psalm 30:7b-10 (NLT)
Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.
I cried out to you, O Lord. I begged the Lord for mercy, saying,
“What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave?
Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness?
Hear me, Lord, and have mercy on me. Help me, O Lord.”
Response – Divine Reply
Gillian D. Grannum © 2011 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Call – Psalm 30:11-12 (NLT)
You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing.
You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,
that I might sing praises to you and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever!
Response – Oh, Give Thanks
Gillian D. Grannum © 2011 Rain Down Melodies, LLC
Benediction – Oh, How He Loves You and Me
Kurt Kaiser © 1975 Word Music, LLC
Jazz Vespers Ensemble:
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.
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.
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.
