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Prelude: “Chosen Destiny”
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Arrangement: Charles Booker © 2015 BandT Publications
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Call to Worship and God’s Greeting
Sung Call to Worship: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
Text: Robert Robinson, 1758, alt.
Music (NETTLETON): J. Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part II, 1813
Arrangements: Johnnie Vinson © 2008 MusicWorks, distributed by HalLeonard; James Biery © 2014 Birnamwood Publications, a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc.; Joel Raney © 2002 Hope Publishing Company
All rights reserved. OneLicense.net A-703303. Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Words of Praise: Psalm 107
Song of Praise: “This Is My Father’s World”
Text: Maltbie D. Babcock
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Arrangements: Timothy P. Howard © 2023 tphmusic; Wayne Fritchie © 2023 WPF Music
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Call to Confession and Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon: “This Is Our Savior’s World”
Text: Julie Tai © Julie Tai
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Used by permission.
Song of Response: “Song of the Prophets”
Text: Michael Morgan © Faith Alive Christian Resources
Music (STAR OF COUNTY DOWN): Irish traditional; arr. Rory Cooney © 1990 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer for Illumination, Scripture Reading
Sermon and Prayer of Application
Song of Response: “Day by Day”
Text and Music: Lowana Wallace and Isaac Wardell © 2017 Porter’s Gate Publishing and Hymns from the Porter’s Gate
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayers of the People with Refrain “Day by Day”
Text and Music: Terrell Wilson, Brittney Spencer, Micah Massey, and Aaron Keyes © 10000 Fathers, BSpencer Publishing, Common Hymnal Digital, Common Hymnal Publishing, The Wilson Songbook Publishing
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Parting Blessing
Closing Song: “Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Text: Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923, © 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Music (FAITHFULNESS): William M. Runyan, 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Arrangements: Charles Booker © 2019 BandT Publications; Mark Armstrong © 1993 Dayspring Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Conference Welcome and Announcements
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
Modern song writers are continually setting the psalms to new music for band-led worship contexts. Join Paul Ryan, Nate Glasper, and the Calvin University Worship Apprentices to sing contemporary psalm settings sung in public worship at Calvin.
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
Modern song writers are continually setting the psalms to new music for band-led worship contexts. Join Paul Ryan, Nate Glasper, and the Calvin University Worship Apprentices to sing contemporary psalm settings sung in public worship at Calvin.
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.
