Published on
March 12, 2025
Video length
68 mins

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.

Service Outline: 

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. 

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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

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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. 

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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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