Updated on
June 17, 2024
Video length
85 min
Mark Labberton will preach “The Prophetic Call and First Messages” based on Ezekiel 1–2. Other worship service participants include Alexis VanZalen, the Grand Rapids Christian High School band, Katie Ritsema Roelofs, Joel Littlepage, Kimberly Williams, Brian Hehn and Justin Fung.

Order of Worship


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.
All rights reserved. OneLicense.net A-703303. 

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. 

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