1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2025 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
This service of the word and table includes a message on Luke 10 from Kevin Adams, who reflects on the parables of the lost sheep, coin, and son. Communion is celebrated following the message. Proskuneo Ministries leads the music, and the Calvin University Ministry Leadership Cohort, alongside their mentor, Joanna Wigboldy, guides the liturgy.
This service was originally recorded at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Service Outline:
Call to Worship
Opening Song: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
Text: stanza 1, Robert Robinson, alt.; stanza 2, Stan Nussbaum
Music: NETTLETON; J. Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part II, 1813
Used by permission.
God’s Greeting
Song of Praise: “Yesu azali awa / Jesus Christ Is with Us”
Text: Congolese folk hymn; English tr. Emily R. Brink © 2006 Faith Alive Christian Resources; Korean tr. Eunae Chung © 2012 Faith Alive Christian Resources
Music: Congolese folk hymn
All rights reserved. Used by permission. OneLicense.net A-703303.
Song of Prayer and Lament: “Afghan Lamentation Worship”
Text and Music: Mike Cheon
Used by permission of Mike Cheon
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading: Luke 15
Sermon
Prayer of Application
Song: “Tu fidelidad / I Depend upon Your Faithfulness”
Text and Music: Miguel Cassina © Bálsamo Music International; English tr. Andrew Donaldson © 2001 Binary Editions
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayers of the People
Communion: Sursum Corda (Hearts Lifted)
Communion: Prayer of Thanksgiving
Song: “Trilingual Sanctus”
Text and Music: Josh Davis © 2022 Josh Davis
Used by permission of Josh Davis
Communion: Memorial Acclamation
Communion: Words of Institution and Epiclesis
Song: “Abana Alathi Fi Ssama (The Lord’s Prayer)”
Text: oral tradition
Music: Laila Constantine, Lebanon © 2002 Songs of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church,
Council of Pastoral Work and Evangelism, admin. Faith Alive Christian Resources
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Communion: Invitation and Instructions
Song: “Ruhul Qudus (Spirit of God)”
Text and Music: Armenian Church, S. Sarkissian © Gilbert Hovsepia
Used by permission
Song: “Kristus Valda”
Text and Music: Grace Funderburgh © Grace Funderburgh
Used by permission of Grace Funderburgh
Song: “Worthy Is Your Name” and “Elai Yesua”“Worthy Is Your Name”
Text and Music: Chris Brown, Mack Donald Iii Brock, Steven Furtick © Be Essential Songs
“Elai Yesua”: Text and Music: author unknown
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Communion: Acclamation
Song: “Agnus Dei”
Text and Music: Michael W. Smith © 1990 Sony/ATV Milene Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Blessing
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.
