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Isaiah 58 is a call to worship through both personal piety and social responsibility for the vulnerable in our community. The first section of this worship service includes the songs, “He’ll Never Change,” “Ancient of Days,” “Whom Shall I Fear” (Psalm 27), and “Be Thou My Vision.”
The first half of Isaiah 59 forms the call to confession of the second section, where we confess our sins through the words of the song “Purge Me.” We hear God’s words of assurance in the second half of Isaiah 59 and respond in song using the words of “Passover Song.”
We hear God’s word to us through the words of Isaiah 60 in the third section of the service. We respond to the sermon, “A Light to the Nations,” with the song “All Creatures of Our God and King.” We also respond to God’s word in prayer, praying for God’s people gathered here at this conference, for the communities that we represent, and for the world. We are sent out through song, “Evidence” and by a spoken blessing.
This service will be led by members of East End Fellowship, a multi-ethnic, economically diverse Christian church in the east end of Richmond, Virginia, seeking God’s joy and justice for their neighborhoods out of love for Christ. Urban Doxology was brought together by a songwriting internship hosted by Arrabon and East End Fellowship. Together, they want to stand in the gap between how things are currently, the way that they could be, and will be when God’s Kingdom is fully realized through Jesus. They have been writing a soundtrack of reconciliation in the diverse and gentrifying neighborhood of Church Hill in Richmond. An urban doxology is the practice of preaching, liturgy, music, and arts that intentionally crosses barriers across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines to prepare the people of God for the City of God that is to come.
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.
