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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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Join this excursion through compositional method, use of text, melodic creation, vocal range, and inner insights. The session includes the presentation of new psalm settings by Rawn Harbor.
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