Published on
March 12, 2025
Video length
66 mins

This worship service features music led by the Calvin University Capella and the Hope College Chapel Choir, directed by Mark Stover and Eric Reyes and accompanied by organist Rhonda Sider Edgington. Nicole Massie Martin gives the sermon on the persistent widow of Luke 18:1-8. 

 

 

This service was originally recorded at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship. 

Service Outline: 

Sung Prayer: “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying”

Text and Music: Ken Medema © 1973 Hope Publishing Company

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Call to Worship

God’s Greeting

Song: “Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven”

Text: Henry F. Lyte, 1834

Music: LAUDA ANIMA; John Goss, 1869; arr. Larry Visser © 2015 GIA Publications, Inc.

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Prayer of Confession

Silent Prayer

Choral Prayer of Confession: “Precious Lord”

Text and Music: Thomas A. Dorsey; arr. Arnold Sevier © 1938 Unichappell Music, Inc.; arr. © 1996 Unichappell Music, Inc.

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Assurance of Pardon

Sung Response: “O Love” 

Text: George Matheson (1842-1906)

Music: Elaine Hagenberg © 2016 Beckenhorst Press, Inc.

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Prayer for Illumination

Scripture Reading: Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Sung Response: “With What Shall I Come” 

Text: based on Micah 6:6-8

Music: Rosephanye Powell © 2023 Gentry Publications, admin. Fred Bock Publishing Group

Used by permission. CCLI #400063.

Prayers of the People

Song: “Abana in Heaven” 

Text and Music: Laila Constantine, Lebanon © 2002 Songs of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt, Council of Pastoral Work and Evangelism, admin. Faith Alive Christian Resources; tr. and adapt. Anne Emile Zaki, Emily R. Brink, Greg Scheer, and Maged Dakouk © 2008, 2012 Faith Alive Christian Resources.

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Blessing

Sending Song: “Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service”

Text: Albert F. Bayly, alt., © 1988 Oxford University Press

Music: PLEADING SAVIOR; J. Leavitt’s Christian Lyre, 1830; harm. stanzas 1-2 Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906; harm. stanzas 3-4 and descant, Larry Visser, 2024 © 2025 Larry Visser

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Sending 

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