1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2025 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
This worship service focuses on the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37. The Holland Christian High School Symphonic Orchestra, directed by Scott VandenBerg, leads the music with accompaniment from Alexis VanZalen. Calvin University’s Awakening group leads congregational singing featuring a selection of emerging bilingual Korean-English songs. Andrea Bult delivers the message, and students from Calvin University’s Ministry Leadership Cohort, alongside their mentor, Noel Snyder, guide the liturgy.
This service was originally recorded at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Prelude: Old Hundredth Psalm Tune
Music: arr. R. Vaughan Williams © 1953 Oxford University Press
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Call to Worship
Opening Song: “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty”
Text: Reginald Heber, 1827, alt.
Music: NICAEA; John B. Dykes, 1861; desc. David McK. Williams (1887-1978)
God’s Greeting
Song(s) of Praise: “하나님은 너를 지키시는 자 / In the Shade of God (Psalm 121)”
Text: Seong-sil Chung; English trans. by Adam M. L. Tice, 2019 © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Seong-sil Chung © Seong-sil Chung
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Scripture: Luke 10:25-37
Silence
Prayer of Confession
The Lord’s Prayer: “하늘에 계신 우리 아버지여 (Our Father Who Art in Heaven)”
Text and Music: Sungmo Moon, 2011 © 2023 Yesol Publishing Company.
Used by permission
Assurance of Pardon
Song of Dedication: “원하고 바라고 기도합니다 / This My Prayer to You”
Text: Ho-Ghi Min, Hyun-Im Lee, and Yoseb Kim © 2018 Chanmi Worship Ministry; English trans. Martin Tel, 2023
Music: Ho-Ghi Min © 2018 Chanmi Worship Ministry
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon
Prayer of Application
Song of Response: “The Servant Song”
Text and Music: Richard Gillard; harm. Betty Pulkingham © 1977 Scripture in Song, a div. of Integrity Music/Maranatha
Music, admin. by Music Services.
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Prayers of the People: Spoken Prayer with “하나님께서 당신을 통해 / May the Love of God Spring Up in Your Soul / Agua viva fluye del Señor”
Text: Yeong-beom Kim © 2002 Beecompany; English trans. by Greg Scheer © 2018 Greg Scheer;
Spanish trans. by Joshua S. Davis and Juan Alberto Camacho © 2019 Proskuneo Minstries, Inc.
Music: Yeong-beom Kim © 2002 Beecompany.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063
Blessing
Sending Song: “Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service”
Text: Albert F. Bayly, alt., © 1988 Oxford University Press, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
Music: BEACH SPRING; The Sacred Harp, 1844; arr. Kyle Nester, 2024.
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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.
